Welcome to the Machine Series: DRM
Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of
imposing technological restrictions to control what users do with the
digital media and hardware they have purchased. DRM is a program
designed to prevent the user from reading, playing, copying or
sharing a book, a song, or a video on another device. DRM creates
“damaged goods”, like those times when you buy a video
game but you cannot play it because the “manufacturer's
authentication servers are offline”. DRM allows to conduct
large scale surveillance over people's media viewing habits.
Users are forced to use certain hardware or
software platforms, limited to accessing their media on a
predetermined number of devices, required to have a persistent
Internet connection to use local files, have their files tied to an
online account, unable to use accessibility software such as screen
readers, cut off from accessing media in certain locales, or even
stripped of their media by having their files silently and remotely
deleted at any time… just like Netflix and YouTube have constructed
“anti-features” to prevent customers from viewing their
media in certain countries or on a certain number of devices.
Copyright restricts who can distribute media, DRM
restricts how users can access their media. Copyright provides
leverage against illegal distribution, DRM provides “antifeatures”
and/or “crippleware”;
and charges for their removal.
So, regardless of all the money the user paid to
“own”
those toys; the user is merely “renting” them until those
toys become obsolte by design and the user blindliy and voluntary
replaces them. DRM is here to lock every possible use for the goods
one purchases.
“The
Right To Read” by the GOAT, Richard Stallman.
More...
Formats that support DRM compiled by the Free
Software Foundation:
Ebooks
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Archos Diffusion - Archos Reader (.aeh)
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Broadband eBooks (BBeB) - Sony media (.lrf; .lrx)
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EPUB - IDPF/EPUB (.epub)
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PalmDOC eReader (formerly Palm Digital Media/Peanut Press) - Palm Media (.pdb)
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Founder Electronics - Apabi Reader (.xeb; .ceb)
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Apple - iBook (.ibooks)
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Amazon Kindle - KF8 (.azw; .kf8)
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Microsoft LIT - Microsoft Reader (.lit)
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Mobipocket - PRC (Palm OS) - (.prc; .mobi)
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Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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TEBR - TEBR (.tebr)
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Advanced Audio Coding (.m4p; .aac)
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Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) - Sony Corporation (.aa3; .oma; .at3)
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MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (.mp3)
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RealAudio (.ra; .ram)
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Windows Media Audio (.wma)
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DivX Media Format (DMF) - DivX, Inc. (.divx)
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Flash Video (.swf; .flv; .f4p)
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M4V - Apple, Inc. (.m4v)
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MPEG-4 Part 14 - MP4 (.mp4)
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QuickTime File Format (QTFF) - Apple, Inc. (.mov; .qt)
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RealVideo (.rm; .rmvb)
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Windows Media Video (.wmv)
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