DAY AGAINST DRM: Launch of DRM.info, the DRM awareness portal
greve
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Dienstag, 03.Oktober 2006
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To describe the past weeks running up on 3 October as hectic would
be a major understatement. Within very short time, a group of
dedicated FSFE people put together a collaborative effort among
digital liberty, new media, consumer protection and library
organisations, as well as independent authors such as Cory Doctorow
and set up a portal to make the diversity of concerns and issues with
Digital Restrictions Management visible. That portal just went
online:
We may just have set a new record in setting up such an initiative,
and the Fellowship certainly had a great part in this: It was a very
special Fellow who spent days enslaved in front of the computer to put
together the technology. Other Fellows helped to bring together other
bits and pieces. Ultimately, as so often, the collaborative
information platform was a collaborative effort. So many thanks to all who were involved!
For the design of DRM.info I would
like to send a huge kudo to Agnieszka Czajkowska of creative_geeks who helped us out with some really
nice design and also made this button to link to DRM.info:
Please use it! Make sure that people will find this site easily, so
knowledge about the problems of Digital Restrictions Management will
no longer be circulated mainly within closed circles!
But now I need to get ready, because there will be a public protest
against Digital Restrictions Management in downtown Zürich
TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2006 from 11:30 until maximum 13:00
NEXT to ZÜRICH HAUPTBAHNHOF -- near the Dataquest store
Meeting point: central station "Bahnhofquai" exit from 11:00.
and I wouldn't want to miss it. Hope to see many of you there!