[Gllug] Anti-DRM event in Central London tomorrow!

[Simon Morris]

On 30/09/06, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:58:00PM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> > Copyright law is very important.. it protects the original
> > author/artist and defines regulated free use.
>
> Copyright might be intended for that purpose, but copyright _law_
> surely does not do this, and is not even intended to do this, since
> the publishers who are the driving force behind it only roll out the
> "starving creators" every now and then to justify further enriching
> themselves.

Excellent point. It could be argued that these restrictions are in
force more to protect the profits of recording and media organisations
than those of the creative artist.

Of course I am also sure that artists have concerns about loss of
revenue from illegal filesharing (which again is not the focus of the
anti-DRM movement) but it is the large businesses that are driving DRM
adoption.

I wonder what Bono did think about the DefectiveByDesign petition to him?

http://defectivebydesign.org/petition/bonopetition

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