[Bradford] [Fwd: Guide to DRM-free Living gets a big update!]

[David Carpenter]

Many of you may be subscribed to the info below, but for those that are
not, I thought this might be interesting. Quite often the list is asking
you to take action, but in this case the Guide to DRM-free living looks
quite good!

Cheers
David
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From: DefectiveByDesign.org <info at defectivebydesign.org>
Reply-to: "DefectiveByDesign.org" <info at defectivebydesign.org>
Subject: Guide to DRM-free Living gets a big update!
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:06:16 -0400



We've just finished a major update of the Guide to DRM-free Living with
dozens of new places to get ebooks, movies, and music without DRM and a
page of worst-offenders. There have been some exciting developments in
the realm of DRM opposition on ebooks, like Tor/Forge dropping DRM on
ebooks, and we wanted to spruce up the guide to reflect all the progress
that's been made. The suggested additions came from the LibrePlanet Wiki
where you can submit new items for the guide for us to review. With so
many new additions, we've also had to reorganize the guide into more
sections that should make it easy to find what you need.

The audio page is divided up into sections for music stores, community
platforms, record labels, and individual artists and albums. Gogoyoko is
a social music store where music fans can buy directly from the artists
who not only set the price of the music, but get 100% of the profit as
well as extra revenue from streaming. Two great community platforms are
Jamendo, the largest platform supporting freely licensed music, and
Libre.fm, a free software alternative to Last.fm which lets you listen
to freely licensed music in your browser using Ogg Vorbis and HTML5. 

The video page now includes ClearBits, a bittorrent distribution
platform for DRM-free movies and films under free culture licenses. They
provide free access to all media, custom feeds by email/RSS, artist
sponsorship, plus peer-to-peer self-hosting and other distribution
options. We also added the Miro Guide, a catalogue of podcasts and video
feeds for the free software media player of the same name. 

The ebooks page of the guide expanded the most and by a wide margin.
Among the many new additions are publishers Tor for having dropped DRM
recently, and the Baen Free Library, a collection of 100 free Science
Fiction/Fantasy books, mostly from Baen Books. We've also added authors
such as Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig. There are also individual
books like The Pirate's Dilemma and the famous guide to
anti-authoritarianism, An Anarchist FAQ, licensed under the GNU Free
Documentation License. 

Make sure you also check "Terms of Service" when downloading from these
sites -- there may be situations where, even though they don't use DRM,
sites try to restrict your use of the works through other means.


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