Protestors over the weekend
gathered at eight Apple Stores across the U.S. to inform the public about the company's Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme. Participants wore brightly-colored Hazardous Materials (HazMat) suits, marching or standing outside the stores holding signs and giving away informational flyers. DefectiveByDesign
announced plans last Friday to gather in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Long Island, and New York to warn customers of the dangers of DRM in Apple's iPod/iTunes. Protests took place between 10:00 a.m. and noon, with participants arguing that it is unreasonable that purchasers of music on iTunes are not allowed to resell music once they are finished with it as they could with physical media, according to a report by
Digital-Lifestyles.info.
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DRM is loaded with consequences far beyond iTunes music purchases. Hopefully those protesters are aware of that and are doing a better job at conveying that message to the public beyond what we picked up in this article.
For good reading on this stuff, look into "The Future of Ideas" and "Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity" by Lawrence Lessig. (www.lessig.org)
Get a life NERDS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Controversies.2C_consequences.2C_and_examples
Or is this really just a front group funded by Micro$oft in yet another futile attempt to slow down the iPod juggernaut?