Friday, September 08, 2006

Oct 3: Day Against DRM

TROVA L'ANNUNCIO QUI




"If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed" - Disney Executive

"The development we feared most from Sony's inclusion of rootkit technology to conceal its DRM software was its use to conceal malicious code. Unfortunately, it seems our fears were well-grounded." said David Emm from security firm Kaspersky Labs.

"[DRM is] set up by conspiracies of companies that are formed with the specific purpose of restricting the public's use of technology. Now, this ought to be a crime. If we had governments of the people, by the people, for the people then, the executives of those companies would be in prison. But, they're not in prison and the reason is we have governments of the people, by the sellouts for the corporations" -- Richard Stallman


There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises -- Bill Gates


U.S. trade law allows the Office of the United States Trade Representative to take action against those countries that fail to provide adequate and effective copyright protection and market access. --
RIAA