Defective by Design Campaign: Foundation Launches DRM-Free Label

By emeadows
August 28, 2012

“Awareness has been spreading among individuals, businesses and other organizations that DRM is a completely unnecessary restriction of freedom, and it drives people away,” claims Defective by Design, a campaign of the Free Software Foundation.
The post suggests that going “DRM-free” is becoming increasingly valuable for patrons. To address this, the organization has created a logo to be placed on products, making it easier for consumers to locate legitimate DRM-free products.
The label reads: “DRM-Free: All files are provided without restrictive technologies.”
“We are excited to already have a list of several first adopters using our DRM-free label,” notes the post. “ClearBits, a BitTorrent distributor of various digital media, much of which is under free culture licenses, is displaying the logo in the footer of each page, and Go Faster Stripe, a distributor of DRM-free DVDs, has the logo on their about page.”
“Music sharing sites ccMixter and TuneTrack display the label on each track’s download page while independent record label, Magnatune, uses it on an about page,” adds Defective by Design.
The post also includes a list of DRM-free publishers and distributors including Foboko, Momentum Books, O’Reilly Media, Weightless Books, Obooko, Pragmatic Bookshelf and others.

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