Towards Digital Respect for the Masses!

DRM.info is an information platform of organisations and individuals that are concerned about the direct and collateral damage of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).

Initiated and maintained by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) with help of the Fellowship of FSFE, DRM.info is a collaborative activity.

Editorial policy

As much of the information on this web site explains, large media and technology companies are the main beneficiaries of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Because both groups have considerable market power combined with disproportionate direct and indirect influence on all media, critical review of DRM technologies and their effect on all areas of society has been sadly lacking throughout the past years.

The purpose of DRM.info is to foster critical dialogue by putting light on those issues that are otherwise conveniently left in the dark. We believe it is important for society to ask

How much and in which way do DRM technologies damage which areas of society, either directly or as collateral damage done by the introduction of Digital Restrictions Management?

This is the central question that DRM.info seeks to address in a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, including representatives of consumer groups, authors, artists, media and digital rights groups. All of us share a sceptical view on the issue at hand and it is our common understanding that not enough critical information is widely known for society to have a dialog about this issue.

We do not, however, speak for each other. Each organisation and individual that writes on DRM.info is ultimately responsible only for their own statements. We embrace and appreciate the plurality that follows from this and hope it will enrich the debate.

How to support DRM.info

The portal DRM.info is maintained by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), which finances itself primarily through donations and contributions of the Fellowship of FSFE. You can also get involved as a volunteer.

But FSFE is not the only organisation doing work in this area. If you wish to support any of the individuals or organisations mentioned above in their work for Digital Respect for the Masses, please follow the links in the organisation list.

Translations

DRM.info tries to provide the information in as many languages as possible, but depends almost entirely on volunteers. If you are interested in helping to translate this site into other languages, please consider subscribing to the

translators@fsfeurope.org

mailing list on which FSFE coordinates all its translations. Please also note that translations of statements by organisations on this site other than FSFE may require an additional step of approval by that organisation.

Thanks

While it may seem a commonplace statement, no collaborative effort ever becomes possible without people working together. For some people, that is an invisible effort, so we would like to thank them explicitly:

All DRM.info design was contributed by Agnieszka "pixelgirl" Czajkowska of Creative-Geeks.org. Thank you very much!

The entire DRM.info portal was set up by Fernanda Weiden in very short time. Thank you so much for your help!

Thanks also go to the authors of Drupal, which we used to do this portal, and all the people who are working to raise DRM awareness and all the other important issues we are facing.