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Student Protest at Swarthmore College (Philadelphia) this Saturday
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| tribu |
The group "free culture" based at the Pennsylvania school is organizing a student boycott for this Saturday concerning the recent usage of DRM or Digital Rights Management, which help identify disks and limit ripping of cds. They are protesting the way the technology has been unleashed on our culture and it's limiting of the consumers digital rights, all while using the guise of sale as an acceptance of contract.
Free Culture is a group that promotes ideas like free thought, open-source software, business networking, and consumer advocacy.
So , what is your take on this event? Is DRM a technology society should accept or an unfair way for companies to limit rights? DRM is easy to surpass, but that may not always be the case, at least temporarily. Do you side with DRM producing labels? Consumer activists? Would you support a compromise, like a voluntary labeling of all DRM realted CDs?
Base Source Link : http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7349.cfm |
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| kadomony |
| cool maybe ill head down before perry. |
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| beats and beeps |
| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
The group "free culture" based at the Pennsylvania school is organizing a student boycott for this Saturday concerning the recent usage of DRM or Digital Rights Management, which help identify disks and limit ripping of cds. They are protesting the way the technology has been unleashed on our culture and it's limiting of the consumers digital rights, all while using the guise of sale as an acceptance of contract.
Free Culture is a group that promotes ideas like free thought, open-source software, business networking, and consumer advocacy.
So , what is your take on this event? Is DRM a technology society should accept or an unfair way for companies to limit rights? DRM is easy to surpass, but that may not always be the case, at least temporarily. Do you side with DRM producing labels? Consumer activists? Would yousupport a compromise, like a voluntary labeling of all DRM realted CDs?
Base Source Link : http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7349.cfm |
What a great opportunity to yell at/throw at some confident nerds. |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by beats and beeps
What a great opportunity to yell at/throw at some confident nerds. |
that's what i'm thinking. only a few hours away from me, too! |
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| wizniz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lepanto
that's what i'm thinking. only a few hours away from me, too! |
2 hours from me :) |
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| Orbital32 |
| I'll bring the tear gas with a side order of rubber bullets. |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by wizniz
2 hours from me :) |
aww how sweet maybe i'll call YOU when i'm on the yellow cheese bus :p whatever happened to that? |
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