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  • Apple's latest DRM patent
  • Help us stamp out DRM in education
  • Reject UltraViolet DRM
  • New sticker contest winning design
  • iQuenching your iThirst
  • Design a new Defective by Design sticker!
  • iPad petition hits 10,000 signatures, "Apple-as-1984" meme spreading
  • Day Against DRM: Sign-up Now to Help the Effort!
  • When Ubisoft takes a break, your games break
  • Signatures presented to Amazon
  • The Decade in DRM (and announcing Day Against DRM, 2010)
  • First 5,000 "iBad" petition signatures delivered on giant iPad
  • Sign the petition: iPad DRM is iBad for our freedoms
  • Support DbD at Apple's Jan. 27 "Come see our latest restriction" event in SF
  • An urgent appeal
  • No love for DRM at Harlequin's new digital publishing house
  • MPAA wants to control your TV
  • Lulu now selling DRM'ed ebooks
  • Take action: DRM leaves video game unplayable for days after purchase
  • Weekly DRM News
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  • Apple's latest DRM patent
  • Help us stamp out DRM in education
  • Reject UltraViolet DRM
  • New sticker contest winning design
  • iQuenching your iThirst
  • Design a new Defective by Design sticker!
  • iPad petition hits 10,000 signatures, "Apple-as-1984" meme spreading
  • Day Against DRM: Sign-up Now to Help the Effort!
  • When Ubisoft takes a break, your games break
  • Signatures presented to Amazon
  • The Decade in DRM (and announcing Day Against DRM, 2010)
  • First 5,000 "iBad" petition signatures delivered on giant iPad
  • Sign the petition: iPad DRM is iBad for our freedoms
  • Support DbD at Apple's Jan. 27 "Come see our latest restriction" event in SF
  • An urgent appeal
  • No love for DRM at Harlequin's new digital publishing house
  • MPAA wants to control your TV
  • Lulu now selling DRM'ed ebooks
  • Take action: DRM leaves video game unplayable for days after purchase
  • Weekly DRM News
  • Weekly DRM News
  • DRM Weekly News
  • Apple says you can't have freedom because you might be clumsy, evil, and a drug dealer
  • Friday DRM News (Monday edition)
  • Update: hundreds of 1-star reviews added to Kindle page!
  • Double-plus ungood: give Amazon's Kindle a 1-star review
  • Friday DRM News
  • Friday DRM News (Monday edition)
  • Friday DRM News
  • The War on Sharing: Why the FSF cares about RIAA lawsuits
  • Impeach Bezos for Amazon's Kindle Swindle
  • Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort
  • Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN.
  • HMV supports MP3
  • iPod Shuffle...
  • DRM petition
  • Gears of War is defective by design
  • Join the new Defective By Design microblogging group
  • Microsoft defends DRM, badly
  • Day 35 -- DRM in 2008
  • Day 34 - MOB TV
  • Day 33 - Blu-Ray and the PlayStation 3
  • Day 32 -- RIAA
  • Day 31 -- Bono
  • Day 30 -- "Trusted" Computing
  • Day 29 -- Edgar Bronfman, Warner Music
  • Day 28 -- Digital Copy
  • Americans! Let the FCC know how you feel about DRM...
  • Apple announces all music on iTunes to go DRM-free -- no word on movies, TV shows, games, audiobooks and applications
  • Belgian anti-DRM petition
  • Day 19 -- iPhone
  • Day 27 -- Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates
  • Day 26 -- ACTA
  • Day 25 -- Biden and Leahy
  • Day 24 -- SDMI
  • Day 23 -- Erik Huggers
  • Day 22 -- TiVO
  • Day 21 -- HD-DVD
  • Day 20 -- Vista
  • Day 18 -- DMCA
  • Day 17 -- Adobe
  • Day 16: The Kindle Swindle
  • Day 15: Steve Jobs
  • Day 14 -- The RIAA stops suing people, continues tactics
  • 35 Days Against DRM — Day 13: HDTV
  • Day 12: Grand Fail Auto
  • Day 11: iTunes
  • 35 days against DRM -- Day 10: Spore -- EPIC FAIL
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 9: Zune
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 8: Nintendo Wii
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 7: Prince: Friends without benefits.
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 6: Windows Media Center
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 5: Yahoo and MSN Music
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 4: BBC iPlayer
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 3: Overdrive
  • 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 2: Netflix
  • 35 Days Against DRM — Day One: MacBook
  • Buy a new anti-DRM t-shirt from the Free Software Foundation's online store
  • MP3 Compatible
  • xkcd -- "Steal this comic"
  • Petition against SecuROM
  • Hold your politicians accountable for PRO-IP
  • Last Chance: Tell Bush to veto the RIAA/MPAA Enforcement Bill
  • Stop the MPAA and RIAA shadow government: Oppose S. 3325
  • Stop the RIAA from using the Department of Justice to do its dirty work
  • Spore and More: Activate against Electronic Arts
  • DRM down under
  • FoulPlay -- why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix
  • Yahoo Music -- the bad dream of DRM continues
  • Ask Apple about the iPhone
  • 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G
  • Rhapsody, Naxos go DRM-free.
  • Refusing Digital Monitoring Policies
  • Fight the Canadian DMCA!
  • Zuneral commemorates the death of DRM
  • Boycott Windows Media Center
  • Welcoming Boston's new Apple Store
  • Libraries: Eliminate DRM!
  • MSN Music to shut down, leaving DRM customers in the lurch
  • Help improve our Guide to DRM-free living
  • CBC to offer popular TV program as a DRM-free download
  • U.S. Patent law is defective by design
  • Library Action: Good news on a cold day
  • Apple says you can't read data on your own computer
  • Apple DRM obstructs legal creativity
  • Don't let the EU sanction DRM
  • Another nasty DRM surprise from Netflix
  • Don't let DRM get between you and a good book
  • Together we are Fighting DRM
  • The Kindle Swindle
  • Taking the battle to the RIAA
  • Tell Netflix: No DRM
  • For Sale: Unbroken Car
  • Warner Waking Up?
  • DRM - Trash Vista, Not Your Computer
  • News reports and response from the BBC's Ashley Highfield
  • BBC iPlayer protest report
  • BBC iPlayer Protests
  • BBC Corrupted
  • RIAA Loses Big in Captiol v. Foster, Forced to Pay Attorney Fees
  • Zune DRM Cracked
  • Awesome Anti-DRM T-shirts
  • Behind-The-Scenes Look at How DRM Becomes Law from Cory Doctorow
  • HMV joining online DRM Free MP3 Sellers
  • Apple iPhone and DRM
  • FSF Releases GPLv3, Strikes Blow Against Tivoization (like the iPhone)
  • Early Results Are In: DRM Free Music Sells!
  • The most popular free software license - the GNU GPL - will combat DRM
  • Free The BBC Site launched
  • AnywhereCD and Warner Settle
  • Jeremy Allison on DRM not ever working
  • DRM Free Clasical Music Downloads
  • TIME on DRM
  • DRM Elimination Crew Hits The Streets
  • IPPA Disney DRM Fact Sheet
  • Amazon to sell music without DRM
  • FSF Launches PlayOgg.org
  • Alberto Gonzales Not Satsified with destroying Department of Justice...
  • HBO wants us to stop using "DRM"
  • ArsTechnica Looks at RIAA and RICO
  • BBC Chooses DRM
  • Over 1200 Signers to Bronfman Letter
  • EFF on the Legal Issues Surrounding the AACS Encryption Key
  • Dell to Offer Computers without Microsoft OS
  • The Economist Comes Out Against DRM
  • Digg Users Revolt Over DRM Encryption Key
  • Wired on EBooks
  • Jobs: Apple Customers Don't Want to Rent Music
  • MPAA Softens Stance on DRM
  • Warner Music and AnyWhereCD.com Trade Law Suits
  • P2PNet: Jobs Shifting DRM Blame on Majors
  • Amazon to Launch DRM Free Digital Downloads
  • Other Music Digital Store sans DRM
  • E-Music Second Largest Online Music Store after iTMS
  • Record Labels Watermark Promo Tracks with DRM
  • Help Save Internet Radio
  • Vista Badge Means DRM
  • The Music Industry is in Trouble and DRM Can't Save It
  • RIAA Calls Steve Jobs "Hypocrite"
  • Mark Shuttleworth on the Futility of DRM (in video)
  • Job Opening at the FSF Running Activist Campaigns
  • WSJ on the Apple/EMI Announcement
  • Microsoft to Drop DRM From Some Songs in Zune Marketplace
  • DRM in Other Media and What Jobs Has to Say About It
  • EMI Drops DRM, iTMS to sell Unencumbered Digital Tracks
  • Record Labels Abandoning RIAA for new Group
  • Looks Like Jobs is a Jester
  • DRM confuses customers and leads to more support calls
  • $1 Billion expected to be spent on DRM this year
  • New Online Music Store with No DRM: Amie Street
  • BadVista Shirts Available
  • 5000 Signers in one week!
  • EU Comissioner Slams Apple's DRM
  • Universal to test DRM Free Sales
  • iRony event video
  • DBD Swag
  • Open Letter to Steve Jobs
  • Schneier On Why DRM in Vista is Bad For Everyone Except Microsoft
  • Schneier on Jobs' DRM Announcement
  • Press Manufacturers to Offer Free Software operating systems on new machines
  • RIAA Announces Plans to Sue More College Students
  • Digital Fair Use Bill Introduced in Congress
  • ArsTechnica on apples "Uniform UX" Defense
  • Gizmodo calls for RIAA artist boycott in March
  • Doctorow on Jobs DRM Dance
  • BBC holding public consultation on adding DRM to it's content
  • 98% of Financial Times Readers Agree: Ditch DRM
  • UK Government Responds to Petition to Ban DRM
  • Framing the DRM Debate
  • Microsoft Execs come out in support of DRM
  • EMI moving closer to offering music without DRM
  • Jobs (and Gates) should "Put their money where the mouths are"
  • We're winning! Jobs joins Gates in opposition to DRM
  • UK Greens Denounce VISTA
  • More pictures from the Vista Launch action and BoingBoing Coverage
  • Vista Launch Coverage: Engadget and others
  • Join DefectiveByDesign at the Vista Launch Events in NYC
  • "Wow starts now"? Software Freedom Activists Stand Up To VISTA Launch
  • Hollywood admits piracy not the problem
  • BadVista: Tag Vista "DefectiveByDesign" on Amazon
  • DRM is dying and MP3 will be the dominant format
  • Microsoft Getting Hammered: Vista secured by NSA Spies?
  • Major Labels start Ditching DRM
  • The FSF "Bad Vista" campaign
  • Major labels looking to ditch DRM
  • Britons Petition UK Government to Ban DRM
  • Newsweek on DRM
  • Violence Erupts over Sony Playstation 3
  • Crashing the Zune Party
  • An iPod that tells the truth
  • Zune Shirts and Others Available Now
  • Messages to Bono
  • BBC on UK Copyright law changes
  • The Small Print Project
  • Tagging products on Amazon "DefectiveByDesign"
  • More Anti-DRM sites and organizations
  • Stay the Course? The Final Media Revolution...
  • DRM not part of a viable business model (Billboard)
  • DRM killed the TiVoToGo star
  • Cardozo Cyberlaw Society Hosts me to talk about DRM
  • Reports on October 3rd - Day Against DRM
  • Bleep.com's DRM free digital music store wins "BEST MUSIC STORE" at Digital Music Awards
  • StopDRM! activists confess to DRM circumvention
  • Another Map (of members in the USA)
  • Keep the pictures coming
  • Dreamhost on our side, announces new service for DRM free files
  • Ten things you can do today
  • Anti DRM Videos Released
  • London anti-DRM Rally and Police Constable 315 CD
  • Apple Got Cored in NYC
  • Taking another bite at the Apple
  • We've got a map!
  • Unbox?! More like a DRM Cage!
  • Print your own warning labels
  • The Phoenix on the FC.o vid contest
  • HeavyLabeling
  • Trying to map us... and get connected on Oct 3rd
  • October 3rd Declared "Day Against DRM"
  • Debate about DRM on Slashdot
  • University of Illinois conducting research on DRM
  • Free Software Magazine: "Many people were walking around with DefectiveByDesign stickers"
  • Great MPAA call report
  • Freedom Rings at the MPAA this Friday
  • Living a DRM-free existence
  • DBD Buttons now available for your website
  • Sorry about all those emails...
  • Linux Journal: "the [DefectiveByDesign] campaign introduces a degree of activism previously unkown in the FOSS communities"
  • Tough questions for Sony
  • DigitalMusicWeblog talks with DBD
  • Submit your own translations!
  • Consumers pay more for DRM free tracks
  • High Resolution Logos Uploaded
  • Apple copy-protection bad for business
  • Yahoo offers DRM free Song
  • Transcript of Ray Beckerman talking about the RIAA law suits
  • Audio from today's RIAA Lawsuit Conference Call with Ray Beckerman
  • Details for conference call are now available
  • International Herald Tribune: For Apple, Europe becoming a tougher customer
  • Awkward questions for the RIAA and MPAA
  • Anti-DRM Children's Book
  • The RIAA, and the actions of a cartel
  • Richard Stallman meets with French presidential front runner Ségolène Royal
  • Bono Delegation?
  • eHome Upgrade interviews Peter Brown
  • ABC News: Bono Asked to Support Digital Freedom
  • Take French Copyright Battle to the Streets
  • Newsforge: Canadian Privacy Advocates proclaim 'DRM Spyware'
  • Peter Brown on BBC World Service
  • CEO of BPI "sounded tired"
  • "It's been hellacious"
  • RIAA Staffer Familiar with "DMR" (Digital Management Restrictions?)
  • Canadian Exec Gets The Message!
  • BPI Spokesperson Deluged By Calls
  • Canadian Linux Nerd: Plays for Sure--NOT!
  • "Apple are the friendly face of DRM"
  • Next Action: Freedom Rings at the RIAA
  • Video of the SF Apple Action from Kent Bye
  • Reuters: iTunes at centre of digital rights protest
  • Vitanuova: Adding some nuance to the conversation
  • TechNewsWorld: iTunes Protesters Crank Up the Volume
  • The Corruptibles, targetting your freedoms
  • US News: Apple fights bid to allow iTunes on rival players
  • Financial Times: Crunch time for Apple’s music icon
  • Seattle: DRM Elimination Crew denied entry
  • Macworld UK labels DBD "savvy"
  • plasticboy: Apple Store Action
  • Digital-Lifestyles: Anti-DRM FlashMobs Hit Apple Stores
  • Activists investigate DRM contamination in Cambridge, MA Apple store
  • ipodnn: Protestors zero in on Apple stores
  • June 10th Flashmobs: news is spreading
  • BoingBoing: Local freedom fighters pull out all the stops
  • NewsForge: June 10th flashmobs a success
  • Flash Mobs Covered in Business Week
  • San Francisco: Video of the Action
  • Chicago IMC: Video of Today's Action
  • StopDRM Coalition takes to the Paris Streets
  • Business Week: A Growing Racket Over iTunes
  • Apple - get ready to be tied in knots
  • Flash Mobbing Apple on Saturday, Why Apple?
  • LUG Radio Covers DBD
  • Download Stickers and posters and buy shirts
  • DRM News: The DVD War Against Consumers (BusinessWeek)
  • When technology journalists get that sour taste
  • FlashMob Pictures
  • Flash Protest News: Campaign Against Digital Rights Management Heats Up (Information Week)
  • Flash Protest News: "maybe these guys know something that we don't" (Gizmodo)
  • Flash Protest News: We won't shed a tear for Microsoft (money.cnn.com)
  • Flash Protest News: Free Software Foundation startet Kampagne gegen DRM (testticker.de)
  • Flash Protest News: Free Software Foundation startet Protestaktion gegen DRM (heise online)
  • Flash Protest News: FSF-backed DRM protesters don hazmat suits at WinHEC (ZDNet)
  • Flash Protest News: Wacky Protests In Washington Stir The Masses
  • Flash Protest News: Tech Advocacy Group Takes to the Streets to Protest DRM at WinHEC (eHomeUpgrade)
  • Flash Protest News: Protecting Digital Rights (Seattlest)
  • Flash Protest News: DRM protest at Microsoft confab (CNET)
  • Flash Protest News: DRM protestors storm Seattle (TechEffect)
  • Flash Protest News: Digital rights protesters gate-crash Microsoft Winhec party (Personal Computer World)
  • Flash Protest News: Anti-DRM protestors crash Microsoft love-in (theInquirer)
  • Flash Protest News: Anti-DRM demonstrators in hazmat suits storm Bill Gates keynote (boingboing)
  • Flash Protest News: Andrew Becherer rocked today!
  • Get the gear!
  • Flash Protest News: FSF launches anti-DRM campaign outside WinHEC 2006 (NewsForge)
  • Flash Protest News: Anti-DRM Flashmob in Seattle (Smartmobs)
  • Flash Protest News: DRM Protest in Hazmat Suits (Slashdot)
  • Flash Protest News: Defective By Design: קמפיין חדש של קרן התוכנה החופשית נגד DRM (Linmagazine)
  • Seattle anti-DRM flashmob
  • Today's Press Release
  • Action Network News: time to fight back
  • Flash Protest News: Are open source and copyright issues connected? (ZDNet)
  • VIDEO: DRM Elimination Crew Hits Seattle for WinHEC

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