Day Against DRM rocked! Let's keep the pressure on Netflix.

Last Sunday, people around the globe spoke out against Digital
Restrictions Management
(DRM)
through many channels at once. The International Day Against
DRM was a
confluence of activism to protect our rights and freedoms from the
surveillance, unaccountable control, and security threat effects of
DRM.

If you haven't already, please sign the
petition,
launched on Sunday, calling on Netflix to release its original
productions from DRM. Netflix accounts for more than half of peak
traffic in some countries -- we have to do this if we are going to
move beyond DRM as a society.

For the Day, researchers at the University of Glasgow revealed new
findings
about the economic harm of DRM. The popular repair tutorial Web site
iFixit asked its users to take a stand
against the DRM that
companies use to willfully prevent repair, while Italian organizers
held a teach-in and repeated what's now become a tradition of 8-bit
music parties.

A supporter wrote a rhyming
poem lamenting
that they could not share DRM-encumbered books. The founder of the
Pirate Party pointed out the
absurdity
in letting companies effectively write copyright law into DRM code,
and we published a post with media rights group Free Press describing
DRM's threat to freedom of
expression.

Once again, we set a record for the number of civil society
organizations and DRM-free book businesses participating, as far apart
as Germany and Bangladesh, broadcasting the message of the Day Against
DRM to tech policy, literary, free culture, and hacker communities.
The businesses offered discounts on
ebooks, some
of which are still ongoing. See the full list of organizations below.

The Day shows our efforts to raise public awareness about DRM are
working. But our work is far from over. We need to keep sharing
educational
resources
about the problem of DRM, taking
action, and supporting
DRM-free media. If you can
spare $10 or
$15 to
help us hire more staff for our tiny Defective by Design team, we'd
love that too.

Stay in touch

We'll be announcing the planning of the next International Day Against
DRM soon. To be notified when we set the date, and to make sure you
hear about International Day Against DRM events in your area, be sure
to sign up for the announcement mailing
list.

Defective by Design organizers and community members are also in our
freenode IRC channel, #dbd, year-round. Come
and chat with us!

Interested in organizing an event or media sale next year?

Please join the DRM Elimination Crew discussion
list
to stay in the loop as we ramp up to the next International Day
Against DRM. We'll keep organizing them until we put ourselves out of
business by eliminating DRM once and for all!

More info about the Day

Full list of organizations participating:

• Associação Ensino Livre


• Associação Nacional para o Software Livre


• Creative Commons


• Chaos Computer Club, Germany


• The Document Foundation


• Defesa Dos Direitos Digitais


• Electronic Frontier Foundation


• Fight for the Future


• FOSS Bangladesh


• Free Press


• Free Software Foundation


• FSF India


• Funda?ia Ceata


• iFixit


• Just Net Coalition


• Lektu


• Libreture


• No Starch


• Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation


• Packt Publishing


• The Pragmatic Bookshelf


• Public Knowledge


• Repair.org


• StoryBundle

For a complete list of events which took place on and immediately
before the Day, see the LibrePlanet
wiki.

Until the next International Day Against DRM!

Image by Allie Brosh and is from Hyperbole and a Half. It is being used under Fair Use Laws.