"I will pledge to never purchase a CD containing any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM), but only if 500 people around the world will do the same."
— Elizabeth Stark and Fred Benenson, Freeculture.org
Deadline to sign up by: 6th February 2006
4,562 people signed up (4062 over target)
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DRM severely restricts our rights as users, creators, and members of the global community. We will not stand by and let fair use grow extinct as a consequence of poorly thought out technology and the laws that support it.
For further information, see http://www.freeculturenyu.org/DRM.
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helping to change the perception that it's only college kids who are upset about DRM. so far the music industry has been successful in marginalizing those who are upset by DRM. this pledge and the article above are just the beginning of a groundswell of average customer alienation.
hopefully the music industry continues to do things like rootkit our computers, because when rich people, businesses, and gov't agencies get upset about DRM, things might start to change in the consumer's favor.
Whether it is in a destructive manner or not is not the point. The point is that the owner of said hardware and item (and no amount of politicking and lawmaking can ever take the concept of OWNERSHIP away) must always have the last say as to what he wants to do with his own belongings.
I did. I bought that CD the moment it came out, but the DRM means that I can't play it in my CD player or my car. Which makes it useless to me. And I can't take it back because I opened it.
I refuse to use the little money I have to buy CDs that don't work from companies that treat me like a criminal instead of a fan. I am willing and excited to support artists and their work, but I'd like them and their labels to respect me in return. Or at least give me a product that I can use.
Please ask your preferred net music store (if it is willing to do non-DRM releases) to offer FLAC music releases - FLAC is an completely open, perfect quality digital media format. See http://flac.sourceforge.net/
Unsure of what the trademark looks like?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDA
Here you'll find the Phillips "Red Book" requirements in order to carry the trademark. They can NOT contain ANY DRM!
Another option is downloading whole CD's (many of which sell elsewhere under a different label w/DRM) from:
http://www.magnatune.com
and other fine indie labels - Search the net "Open Music"!
Only ones not happy with record labels like Magnatune is the RIAA! Magnatune basicly cuts them out of the circle of payment. Another words they get stiffed in the rear, which is what they deserve for doing nothing for anyone but themselves.
The Artists and the Magnatune split the money 50/50 and you pay the price you choose. I generally pay $8.00 and download the full CD Album I've seen elsewhere under BMG (DRM'd to hell) online sites like Amazon (Crapuson u know more like crap on us). This site actually wants you to share the music!
There are many "Open Music" labels openning up these days. We need to support them so the Big Name Artists get a hint and wholesale disembark the RIAA train to DRM Hell!
It is really a simple caclulus: corportations and businesses have EVERY incentive to take away our freedom for profit. We simply cannot let this happen. We begin to stop it here, now, but this is not the end of it. We can reduce DRM to a mere annoyance (because we cannot stop people from implenting copy protection which is what it reduces to if...) by getting our legislators to repeal the Digital Millenium Copyright Act or DMCA. The DMCA is what gives DRM unjustified teeth. It is the law that can punish people for protecting themselves from DRM mal-ware as we recently got from Sony.
The madness must stop: DRM is DRM because of the DMCA. Eliminate the DMCA (among the worst legislation in recent history) and DRM simply becomes copy protection, and copy protection can be circumvented.
Also, donlt let our mistakes get exported! There are treaties in the works (http://www.fsf.org/news/wipo-broadcast-t...)
that seek to export the badness of the DMCA and make it even worse.
http://www.jamendo.com/ - this seems a great community if you signup for free of course you get the possibility of downloading either mp3 or ogg and the choice of the way to download
Someone already mentioned magnatunes so not much to say about that
There is also http://www.archive.org/details/opensourc...
Hope you find these usefull at finding free unencumbert music online...
Quick update. We've compiled a partial list of CDs with DRM (primarily in the US, although the project will be expanded worldwide hopefully) at http://www.drmradar.com
The project is in its very early stages, but we'll keep you posted as it progresses.
Amen to that.
http://news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6035707....
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8186
http://mp3.about.com/b/a/255782.htm
i never knew that this much mammoth work is being done for free software for people.
i came to gnu when i was in search of some free software.
i thank the team from richard stallman onwards for their great committment.
i can see the future is being made in front of our eyes and the future generations will definitely love what is being done.
long live free software foundation.
p.s: you may please let me know how to put a banner on my site, of course at free of cost.
thank you
I can buy one or two per months but if I like have more?
I must copy it.
The record companies treat us like criminals, what do they expect... a gift?
When I pay for a CD, I should be able to convert that music into whatever format I want.
I buy only genuine music CDs.
Just my 50 cents.
AllofMP3, however, are crooks. I don't see how robbing musicians is supposed to help them.
I will give me name to this list.