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[News] Canadians Teaming Up Against DRM

Canadian anti-DRM coalition makes timely debut

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| A coalition of public interest groups and academic privacy experts
| has released a public letter and background paper to the Canadian
| government stating their concerns about digital rights management
| (DRM) technologies and their legal status. The coalition has also
| started a Web site, IntellectualPrivacy.ca, to coordinate its efforts.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Quoting the Free Software Definition, McOrmond says, "Any technology
| that revokes the right of the owner of a device to be in control that
| device for lawful purposes (i.e.: revokes the ability to 'run, copy,
| distribute, study, change and improve the software' that controls the
| device) can't be implemented with FLOSS. This is where the technical
| and the legal communities sometimes diverge." DRM legislation that
| protected privacy could still threaten FLOSS.
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