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1984…meet DRMWhat is DRM?Digital Restrictions Management…



1984…meet DRM

What is DRM?

Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. 

When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it. 

This concentrates control over production and distribution of media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people’s media viewing habits.

If we want to avoid a future in which our devices serve as an apparatus to monitor and control our interaction with digital media, we must fight to retain control of our media and software.

Defective By Design FAQ: What is DRM

Image Credit:
1984…meet DRM by Josh Bonnain released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence … this work is a remix of the CC BY bond and orwell by Idlir Fida

the fastest game on iceRingette was intended to be a kinder,…



the fastest game on ice

Ringette was intended to be a kinder, gentler game than hockey for girls.  And as it turns out, this is a sport that does require finer motor skills and co-ordination to control the ring, but more than that, this game does indeed feature speed… enough so that anyone who has seen a good game of ringette can tell you how slow and clunky hockey looks by comparison.   

Oh, and players actually play the game; I’ve seen no gratuitous violence.