[Nottingham] Fwd: Coalition against Digital Restrictions Management ready to go for May 4th Day Against DRM

[david at gbenet.com]

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Subject: 	Coalition against Digital Restrictions Management ready to go for May 4th Day
Against DRM
Date: 	Thu, 03 May 2012 23:36:25 -0400
From: 	Free Software Foundation <info at fsf.org>
Reply-To: 	Free Software Foundation <info at fsf.org>
To: 	<david at gbenet.com>



BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, May 3, 2012 — Defective by Design will hold its
annual International Day Against DRM (http://dayagainstdrm.org) on Friday, May 4th,
targeting the use of Digital Restrictions Management on ebooks. Several other organizations
have joined to express their concern for the freedoms of authors and readers, including
Creative Commons, O'Reilly Media, No Starch Press, the Accessible Computing Foundation,
Libre Graphics Magazine, APRIL, the Free Software Foundation and its sister organizations,
FSF France and FSF India.

Matt Lee, campaigns manager of Defective by Design, said, "DRM is a growing problem in the
area of ebooks, where people have had their books restricted so they can't freely loan,
re-sell or donate them, read them without being tracked, or move them to a new device
without re-purchasing all of them. They've even had their ebooks deleted by companies
without their permission."

As part of the day, people fed up with DRM are holding protest and awareness events in
Cincinnati, Orlando, Amherst, San Francisco, Boston, Madrid, Rome, Manchester, Nagoya
(Japan), and Aveiro (Portugal). More events are still being added at
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:DefectiveByDesign/Day_Against_DRM_2012.

Supporters are also taking action online, displaying the campaign's banner and using the
opportunity to blog about their frustrations with DRM.

Notable science fiction author and editor of the influential BoingBoing.net blog, Cory
Doctorow said, "As an author, I understand that DRM doesn't do squat to protect my
interests. As a businessperson, I understand that DRM usurps my commercial relationships
with my customers and hands them to DRM vendors."

Sanders Kleinfeld, author of /HTML5 for publishers/ said in an interview with O'Reilly
Media, "What's disappointing right now is that Amazon is very set on their Mobi format for
their Kindle device, Apple has made strides away from EPUB 3 with their latest iBooks 2.0
and iBooks Author. I think vendors that make these devices are interested in maintaining
that lock-in for customers."

Defective by Design has held previous international days against DRM in 2006, 2010 and 2011,
focusing on use of DRM by Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and the RIAA. Defective by Design is a
campaign of the Free Software Foundation.

Information on how to participate can be found at http://dayagainstdrm.org. Pictures,
videos, and accounts will be posted afterward at http://defectivebydesign.org.


      About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users'
right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the
development and use of free (as in freedom) software — particularly the GNU operating system
and its GNU/Linux variants — and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to
spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and
its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about
GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its
headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.


      Media Contacts

Matt Lee
Campaigns Manager
Free Software Foundation
+1-617-500-3284
campaigns at fsf.org <mailto:campaigns at fsf.org>


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