Defective by Design

Defective by Design ( in German about flawed due to the draft ' transferred ,' intentional design flaw ') is a campaign of the Free Software Foundation against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). The Free Software Foundation understands the official term Digital Rights Management (English for, Digital Rights Management ') as a misleading, since it suggests the content provider would secure rights, although this only means restrictions for consumers. Therefore, the FSF Digital Restrictions Management proposes (English for Digital Restriction Management ) for DRM.

DRM limits the possibilities of the consumer to use freely purchased movies, music, books and software. The goal of Defective by Design is to eliminate these limitations and the user as much freedom to admit. The campaign warns of a " destruction of the digital future " by DRM, they want to prevent them through education campaigns among the population. The objectives of actions are often large media companies (especially the music industry ) and propagator of DRM products. Defective by Design claims to have 12,000 registered members (as of 2006).

History

Defective by Design was founded in May 2006 with a protest march against the WinHEC. Distributed with the protests of members of the Free Software Foundation in yellow protective clothing Leaflets, Microsoft products designated as " defective by design" because they contained DRM.

Since then, there have been many controversial actions success. Thus, we failed attempt to arrange a meeting with Bono, a prominent member of the band U2 and proponents of DRM -controlled iTunes.

The 3rd of October 2006 has been designated the "Day Against DRM ".

In mid-2007 there was a campaign against the BBC iPlayer, which is based on Windows Media DRM. Furthermore, it was a supported by environmental organizations action against Microsoft's Windows Vista initiates who stood up against the high hardware requirements and the resulting accelerated scrapping of old computers.