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NewsForge: Anti-DRM Campaign Targets the RIAA

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Bruce Byfield
Jun 22, 2006

“The Defective By Design anti-Digital Rights Management (DRM)
campaign is urging supporters to participate in a day of action on
Friday, June 23. This time, supporters are being asked to call the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and similar
organizations around the world to complain about DRM. After making
the call, supporters will have the chance to share the results of
their call with other participants.

“‘The way we see it,’ says Defective by Design manager Gregory
Heller, the first two actions in the campaign, ‘targeted the first
immediate sources of DRM that consumers would experience.’ The
first event targeted Microsoft during WinHEC, and the second event
took aim at Apple. In just a few weeks’ time, the campaign has
grown from zero to almost 3,000 registered supporters. Friday’s
action, he says, is aimed ‘at the top of the chain…'”

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