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November 10, 2005
International fight over digital rights
Our colleagues at BEUC, the European consumer coalition, have launched a Consumer Digital Rights Campaign with its own nice website, to help consumers fight back against intrusive digital rights management (DRM) devices that limit our ability to fully use legally-purchased video and music products and may even damage our expensive players and computers (if the products even play on computers, that is). If you've got DVDs or CDs that won't always work right in all your players, you know what I am talking about when I say DRM. Companies are using the over-blown threat of digital piracy to get away with adding these technologies that not only narrow our consumer intellectual property (IP) rights but cost us money and generally diminish the pleasure of our listening, reading or watching experiences.
Also, if you've got a fast connection, they've got video interviews with with a number of experts and activists, including science fiction writer/IP activist Cory Doctorow and other experts from Creative Commons, CPTech, BEUC, Free Software Foundation, etc.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at November 10, 2005 12:16 PM
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