Defective by Design's Day Against DRM

From Micheal Geist's Blog:

Defective by Design's Day Against DRM: "October 3rd is Defective by Design's Day Against DRM . The group has compiled a list of hundreds of things that people can do to address the issue. There are several Canadian activities planned. At the conclusion of my 30 Days of DRM series, I provided a list of 30 things that people can do about the threat of DRM and anti-circumvention legislation."

I don't support the idea of DRM, because it simply doesn't work. I can easily understand why the content distributers want this sort of protection on the content, but it simply puts limits on material than real criminal will find ways to circumvent.

DRM is sort of like the idea of Crypto, but the problem is that the recipient of the content is also the same one you are trying to protect the content from. Like protecting a candy jar from a kid. The end result, is that you have to design a system based on the activity of the recipient, and thus, you wind up stopping legitimate activities because they are, from the perspective of the DRM system, indiscernible from bad activities.

The end result, is a set of arbitrary restrictions, based on the best interest of the content distributer, not the consumer nor the content creator.

If you don't believe me, you can read it directly from the artists mouth, from the Canadian Music Creators Coalition's 'what we stand for' page...