Today is the seventh annual International Day Against DRM (Digital Rights Management). We've talked a lot here about DRM particularly in movies and books (read my two-part timeline, The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music
and part 2 about video and TV). But what's most important for this year's Day Against DRM isn't any of that. Rather, it's the very future of the way we use the web, due to efforts to get DRM into HTML5. Read this post from the Free Culture Foundation to better understand why that's a problem.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's International Day Against DRM site has suggestions for ways you can participate today. You can also pick up some DRM-free content to show your support, and in some cases, get a discount:
- O'Reilly books are all DRM-free, and today you can use the code DRM2013 to get 50% off all of their ebooks and videos.
- No Starch Press is also offering 50% off of their ebooks today with the code DRMFREE.
- GOG games are always DRM-free.
- Tor and Forge went DRM-free last year
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