Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ FAQ: What do you mean, proprietary software can be used to take away your rights?

Stephen Downes

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Prett good summary statement of the ways digital rights management (DRM) and other protective technologies infringe on your rights, from allowing people to spy on you, to installing software on your devices without permission, to taking away products you have bought and paid for. These infringements on freedoms are extensive and increasingly political. For example, "In early 2010, Apple banned an app submitted by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Mark Fiore, because it 'ridiculed public figures.'"

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