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Tag: #DayAgainstDRM
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DRM
by Timothy Vollmer CopyrightToday is the annual #DayAgainstDRM, a global campaign to raise awareness about the harms of digital rights management (DRM). DRM consists of access control technologies or restrictive licensing agreements that attempt to restrict the use, modification, and distribution of legally-acquired works. There are serious problems with attaching DRM to creative works: not only does it…