"In a nutshell: DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights and selling them back to you."

Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy

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Vista's Content Protection Badness – [Geeks are Sexy] technology news

Led to this:

"Boston, MA—December 15, 2006—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights"

BadVista Blog — BadVista

I'm not down with Vista.

Please Adobe, release Dreamweaver, Photoshop and the rest on Linux, so I can quit Windows painlessly.

DefectiveByDesign

"DefectiveByDesign.org is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market. DRM products have features built-in that restrict what jobs they can do. These products have been intentionally crippled from the users' perspective, and are therefore "defective by design". This campaign will identify these “defective” products, and target them for elimination. Our aim is the abolition of DRM as a social practice."

Apparently, they were outside of South Station today.

In separate legal actions yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an influential digital rights advocacy group in California, and the Texas attorney general filed lawsuits against the music publisher Sony BMG, contending that the company violated consumers' rights and traded in malicious software.

You Go EFF. And that's why I'm a dues paying member.

And while we're at it, let's give it up for Texas. Go Texas.

"It now appears that at least 568,200 nameservers have witnessed DNS queries related to the rootkit."