Tuesday May 4th 2010 is International Day Against DRM

Posted February 26, 2010 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

DRM ACTION ALERT!

We’re happy to announce that International Day Against DRM 2010 is happening on Tuesday May 4th!

Help us spread the announcement of the event and our latest article “A Decade in DRM”.

* Share on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/b6j1b/decade_in_drm_dbd_looks_back_on_10_years_in_the/
* Share on Digg: http://digg.com/tech_news/Decade_in_DRM_the_ongoing_fight_against_DRM

Read the article:

* http://www.defectivebydesign.org/decade-in-drm

And our press release:
* http://www.fsf.org/news/may-4-day-against-drm/

Fight Digital Restrictions Management!

Fight for your freedom.

Join our campaign against DRM:  DefectiveByDesign

Categories: DefectiveByDesign, campaigns

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube

Posted February 20, 2010 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.

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Google, we all want you to do the right thing. Free VP8, and use it on YouTube!

Categories: Play Ogg, campaigns

Dell, we want gNewSense preinstalled!

Posted February 5, 2010 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

The petition to ask Dell to preinstall gNewSense reached 2000 signatures.

But Dell is not listening, again.

I invite you all to sign the petition AND leave a comment to ask Dell to preinstall gNewSense, one of the fully free software GNU/Linux distribution.

You can also Contact Dell. Please do it.

Please help me spreading this campaign on the web with all the tools you know: send this news to slashdot, write about it on your blog, website or mailing list, share it on identi.ca

Categories: Dell and GNU/Linux, campaigns, gNewSense

iPad is Defective By Design

By Graziano and has 3 comments.

Are you thinking about buying an Apple iPad?

Please don’t if you care about freedom of speech.

This pad is a censorship device because of a built-in technology called DRM.

They say that DRM means Digital Rights Management but from our point of view DRM means Digital RESTRICTIONS Management because it restricts what you can do with your device:  it tells you what applications you can install, what files you can share and where, and other malicious anti-features.

I invite you to sign this petition to ask Steve Jobs to drop all the DRM from the iPad before it hits the market.

Feb 3rd update: For every 5,000 signatures we get, we will send this giant “1984″ postcard to Steve Jobs.

Please help me to share this news.

  1. Put this link in your email signature
  2. Link this post on your blog
  3. Link this post on your favourite free social network or microblogging network
  4. Send an email to all your friends about it
  5. Talk about it in your favourite irc channels

Together we can put an end to DRM.

You can also join our campaign against DRM called Defective By Design.

Categories: DefectiveByDesign