[FC-discuss] What really kills DRM in music?

[Fred Benenson]

(and in case it wasn't clear I do think our collective activism had
something to do with it -- anti-DRM articles routinely make headlines and
that is not because of sheepish consumers complaining they can't authorize
their new laptop).


~ ~ ~
thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog
work / http://creativecommons.org
sights / http://flickr.com/fcb
sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis
status / http://twitter.com/mecredis



On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Fred Benenson <fcb at fredbenenson.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Matt Lee <mattl at cnuk.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Kevin Driscoll <driscollkevin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > It's not our activism.
>>
>> Defective by Design has been hammering Apple on this issue for years.
>> Sometimes, we've been heavily criticized for some of the things we've
>> done, but every action against Apple help to raise awareness of the
>> issue.
>>
>> SFC was involved in some of those actions. From memory, Fred organized
>> one or more of them.
>>
>
> Yeah, I organized the first DRM protests against retailers with FC @ NYU
> (the first anti-DRM demos were in France against the EUCD bill) and DbD
> followed up with a org dedicated to it.
>
> I wrote a post here about it:
>
> http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/01/06/progressive-music/
>
> F
>
>
>> --
>> Matt Lee
>> Free Software, etc.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Discuss mailing list
>> Discuss at freeculture.org
>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://freeculture.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20090107/f8654bb6/attachment-0001.htm