This is the Anti-DRM protest that took place at the San Francisco Apple Store on the Saturday morning of Vloggercon.
Featured are Henri Poole of DefectiveByDesign.org / CivicActions and Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons.
Producer: Kent Bye
Music: “The Next Step” by Trifonic via ccMixter.org
Graphic Design: Brooks Cole of Holocosmos.com
UPDATE 6/20/06: I wanted to clarify the “you can’t give it to a friend” comment that Mike Linksvayer says because I edited out the full context for what I think he meant by the inability to “transfer rights” with DRM. Here is the full context of his quote:
DRM isn’t about letting go of control, it’s about taking control that previously media companies didn’t have over consumers. When you had tapes and CDs and records, you could do what you wanted with them. You — Because of for sale you could even sell them on eBay or a long time ago sell them at a garage sale. Now you download something from iTunes, you can only put it on devices that Apple wants you to put it on. And you can’t give it to your friend — I mean, even though you bought it, you can’t transfer those rights. So it’s become a rental as opposed to property that you own.
So I think that Mike is trying to say that you used to be able to legitimately transfer music, but that now it is impossible to do so with DRM.
Update 6/20/06: Linksvayer clarifies his thoughts on this matter on his blog
The point I wanted to make is that consumers are getting a substantially different deal with DRM media than they have gotten in the past, indeed a substantially worse deal.
Only desperate or stupid consumers would lease a home theater from Rent-a-Center. DRM media should be seen in the same light.
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