(and in case it wasn't clear I do think our collective activism had something to do with it -- anti-DRM articles routinely make headlines and that is not because of sheepish consumers complaining they can't authorize their new laptop).
~ ~ ~ thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog work / http://creativecommons.org sights / http://flickr.com/fcb sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis status / http://twitter.com/mecredis On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Fred Benenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Matt Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > It's not our activism. >> >> Defective by Design has been hammering Apple on this issue for years. >> Sometimes, we've been heavily criticized for some of the things we've >> done, but every action against Apple help to raise awareness of the >> issue. >> >> SFC was involved in some of those actions. From memory, Fred organized >> one or more of them. >> > > Yeah, I organized the first DRM protests against retailers with FC @ NYU > (the first anti-DRM demos were in France against the EUCD bill) and DbD > followed up with a org dedicated to it. > > I wrote a post here about it: > > http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/01/06/progressive-music/ > > F > > >> -- >> Matt Lee >> Free Software, etc. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > >
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