(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar)

On 3 October 2006, the first Anti-DRM day, a new collaborative information platform about the potential dangers of Digital Restriction Management (DRM) was launched. The DRM.info was initiated by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and is supported by a group of organisations and authors.

The main message of the new website is 'Your devices don't trust you!' as Joachim Jakobs, FSFE's media coordinator explains: "In fact they trust you so little that they will not even tell you that they put you under surveillance." DRM.info wants to inform and involve people in decisions that will affect them on a very personal level. All the contributors to the new platform have a shared concern about the lack of a social debate on issues surrounding DRM technologies.

Georg Greve, FSFE's president underlined one of the dangers of DRM: "DRM technologies are based on the principle that a third party has more influence over your devices than you, and that their interests will override yours when they come in conflict. That is even true where your interest is perfectly legitimate and legal, and possibly also for your own data."

DRM.info - Digital Restriction Management
http://drm.info/

FSF Europe launches anti-DRM site (5.10.2006)
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/79049

Digital Rights Management (only in German, 3.10.2006)
http://netzpolitik.org/2006/digital-rights-management/

The European anti-DRM campaign has started (only in Italian, 4.10.2006)
http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1678123&r=PI