(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).<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Fred Benenson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fcb@fredbenenson.com">fcb@fredbenenson.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Matt Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattl@cnuk.org" target="_blank">mattl@cnuk.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Kevin Driscoll <<a href="mailto:driscollkevin@gmail.com" target="_blank">driscollkevin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div>> It's not our activism.<br>
<br>
</div>Defective by Design has been hammering Apple on this issue for years.<br>
Sometimes, we've been heavily criticized for some of the things we've<br>
done, but every action against Apple help to raise awareness of the<br>
issue.<br>
<br>
SFC was involved in some of those actions. From memory, Fred organized<br>
one or more of them.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote></div><div><br>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.<br>
<br>I wrote a post here about it:<br><br><a href="http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/01/06/progressive-music/" target="_blank">http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/01/06/progressive-music/</a><br><br>F<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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