Linux Journal: A Five Minute Guide to Opposing DRM

“I’ve been covering the Free Software Foundation’s Defective By
Designcampaign against Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies
since its planning stages. Starting from scratch, in less than
three months, the campaign has grown to 7000 members. This number
is impressive, especially since the campaign introduces a degree of
activism previously unknown in the free and open source software
communities. What strikes me, though, is that, for all the loathing
of DRM, how rarely the reasons for opposing it are spelled out. In
some cases, the reason may be that people consider them too obvious
to be worth mentioning, but, too often when I’ve probed, people
haven’t even heard of the possible objections. These objections
begin with the fact that the case for DRM has yet to be made, and
continues with arguments about consumer rights, privacy,
competitiveness, and industry standards…”

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