[Gllug] DRM - Trash Vista, Not Your Computer

[Alain Williams]

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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:32:49 -0700
From: "Joshua Gay" <joshuagay at gmail.com>
Subject: [DBD] DRM - Trash Vista, Not Your Computer
To: "alain williams" <addw at phcomp.co.uk>

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TRASH VISTA, NOT YOUR COMPUTER
	Join an international coalition of environmental and social justice
groups in signing this statement condemning DRM and Vista. 

	Digg this story! [1] 

	Add your signature [2] in support now! 

	DRM and Vista are bad for you, the environment, and the public. Join
the Green Party, New Internationalist, Friends of the Earth
International, People and Planet, the Free Software Foundation, and
the DRM Elimination Crew by signing a statement that rejects DRM [3],
Vista, and encourages the adoption of free software. 

	Vista was engineered from the ground up as a Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM) and Treacherous Computing (TC) platform. This makes
unnecessarily steep hardware requirements for users. As a result,
Microsoft has taken a disposable computer mentality, forcing users to
buy new computers if they want to run Vista. 

	What's worse is that Vista is designed to monitor what people do,
and to limit what they can do with digital media files. These limits
obstruct common and legally protected uses like sharing news story
clips and copying text from government documents. 

	Read more. [4] 

	In solidarity, 

	Josh, John, Peter and the DRM Elimination Crew.

Links:
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[1] http://defectivebydesign.org/sites/nodrm.civicactions.net/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=361&qid=329532
[2] http://defectivebydesign.org/sites/nodrm.civicactions.net/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=362&qid=329532
[3] http://defectivebydesign.org/sites/nodrm.civicactions.net/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=363&qid=329532
[4] http://defectivebydesign.org/sites/nodrm.civicactions.net/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=364&qid=329532

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