Group: Defective by Design/Day Against DRM 2014

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If you're hosting an event, please list it here, along with any necessary contact information. The DbD campaign would be glad send a message advertising your event to supporters in your area. Just email the exact text of the message to info@defectivebydesign.org. Make sure to include the what, where, and when, along with your contact info for potential attendees.
 
If you're hosting an event, please list it here, along with any necessary contact information. The DbD campaign would be glad send a message advertising your event to supporters in your area. Just email the exact text of the message to info@defectivebydesign.org. Make sure to include the what, where, and when, along with your contact info for potential attendees.
  
Here are some ideas for events:
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Here are some ideas for events. If you host one, please send photos to info@defectivebydesign.org:
  
 
* DRM-free music/movies/games party. Challenge yourself to make it so that none of the media at the event has DRM. If possible, host a concert by a band that releases DRM-free music. You can refer to our Guide to DRM-free living at https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide
 
* DRM-free music/movies/games party. Challenge yourself to make it so that none of the media at the event has DRM. If possible, host a concert by a band that releases DRM-free music. You can refer to our Guide to DRM-free living at https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide

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The Day Against DRM is an opportunity to unite a wide range of projects, public interest organizations, web sites and individuals in an effort to raise public awareness to the danger of technology that requires users to give-up control of their computers or that restricts access to digital data and media. This year, we'll be helping individuals and groups work together to create local actions in their communities — actions will range from protesting an unfriendly hardware vendor to handing out informative fliers at local public libraries!

If you're hosting an event, please list it here, along with any necessary contact information. The DbD campaign would be glad send a message advertising your event to supporters in your area. Just email the exact text of the message to info@defectivebydesign.org. Make sure to include the what, where, and when, along with your contact info for potential attendees.

Here are some ideas for events. If you host one, please send photos to info@defectivebydesign.org:

  • DRM-free music/movies/games party. Challenge yourself to make it so that none of the media at the event has DRM. If possible, host a concert by a band that releases DRM-free music. You can refer to our Guide to DRM-free living at https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide
  • Hold signs or hand out copies of DRM-free media and flyers about the issues with DRM (FOSS Bangladesh did this in 2013). You can refer to our DRM FAQ at https://www.defectivebydesign.org/faq
  • Host a house party/discussion group
  • Protest a local store that sells DRM-encumbered products (community members did this in Seattle in 2013)
  • Write a letter to the editor of a publication
  • Speak to a local group or get on a radio/TV show

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Events

Join the International Day Against DRM announcements list and tell us where you live so we can let you know about events in your area.

Bangladesh

  • Daffodil International University: Open Session and Human ties against DRM The FOSS Bangladesh is planning to arrange a group discussion with some poet, writer, novelist, publisher, computer and mobile programmer and University Students here in Dhaka to notify them about DRM and its evil effects. Along with this we are suspending our website (www.fossbd.org) with an image banner focusing the Day Against DRM-2014 and DRM's cruel effects on IT world, activated from 30 April, 2014. And continue our last year human ties event right on the open street for mass people acknowledgement. Detailed event plan on G+ event page is coming soon. For more connect FOSS Bangladesht through our public relation secretary on contact[AT]fossbd[DOT]org and general secretary on toshazed[AT]gmail[DOT]com

USA

  • LibrePlanet Boston: Where to find DRM-free entertainment? Note, this event is Wednesday, May 7 at 6:30. Join us for our monthly free software meetup. Our main topic is Fotoxx, the wonderful free software for organizing and enhancing photos. We will start the meeting with a brief talk on DRM and where to find DRM-free entertainment (music, videos, etc.). Join us at 6:30pm at Akamai: 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA. Email willrico[AT]gmail[DOT]com for more information.

News articles and blog posts

Do you have a 2014 Day Against DRM blog post? Then, please add it to the list below — see some from last year.