= International Day Against DRM: fight deliberately crippled technology =
[Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130503-01.en.html ]
This Friday, May 3rd 2013, FSFE is joining the 8th international "Day against DRM" campaign [1] in the call to end Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). The fight against DRM has been gathering momentum in the past weeks. Freedom activists rallied against DRM in HTML5, stressing this technology's harmful effects on innovation and user's freedom. On today's Day Against DRM, our sister organisation the Free Software Foundation will deliver the petition signatures opposing DRM in HTML5 to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Boston.
You still have a few hours to take action: join FSFE, FSF and 25 other organisations defending digital freedom by signing the petition against DRM in HTML5 [2].
By accepting to implement DRM in HTML5, W3C would endanger interoperability and open the door to the implementation of restrictive technologies in the heart of the internet.
Device manufacturers and corporate copyrights holders have already been massively infecting their products with user-hostile DRM. Tablets, smartphones and other minicomputers are sold with numerous restrictions embedded that cripple users freedom. The proposal at table in W3C goes even further.
DRM creates damaged goods [3] that users cannot control or use freely. It requires users to give-up control of their computers and restricts access to digital data and media. Fight it: use today's international Day against DRM to spread the word and make yourself heard!
[1] http://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm [2] http://drm.info [3] http://www.defectivebydesign.org/
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and involved in many global activities. Access to software determines participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study, modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE.
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