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The Haz-Mat suited activists of DefectiveByDesign gained quite a bit of exposure when they waltzed into Apple stores across the country carrying signs and informing customers about the rights they give up when buying DRM controlled music from the iTunes Music Store. Our sister site, The Digital Music Weblog (she prefers to be called TDMW for short) caught up with the crafty folks at DefectiveByDesign for an interview about Digital Rights Management. DefectiveByDesign is an offshoot of the Free Software Foundation, the non-profit organization that maintains and defends the GNU General Public License, better known for providing the legal framework under which the myriad Linux distributions exist.
If you have any concerns about your rights in a digitally encoded future, you should read this interview. The folks at DefectiveByDesign aren't alone when they predict a bleak digital landscape ahead, where the content providers and device manufacturers are able to lock you in, and keep you from buying competing products by holding your media hostage.
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Subscribe to commentsPeterAug 2nd 2006 8:21AM
Here's a simple solution. If you don't like DRM protected music - don't buy it. Yes, you might have to do without your favorite band's latest release, but too bad. If people refused to buy DRM protected music, they would stop selling it.
You can complain all you want about the evils of DRM, but if you continue to buy it, why should the music industry care about your whining? Don't buy it and let the free market work.