“The Day Against DRM will unite a wide range of projects, public interest organizations, web sites and individuals in an effort to raise public awareness to the danger of technology that restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software; indeed, all forms of digital data. Many DRM schemes monitor a user’s activities and report what they see to the corporations that impose the DRM.

“As part of its Defective by Design anti-DRM campaign, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) will be helping to coordinate anti-DRM activists all over the world to mobilize the public against this anti-social technology. They have also published an article detailing a short history of a “Decade in DRM” at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/decade-in-drm.

“”DRM attacks your freedom at two levels. Its purpose is to attack your freedom by restricting your use of your copies of published works. Its means is to force you to use proprietary software, which means you don’t control what it does. When companies organize to design products to restrict us, we have to organize to defeat them,” said Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman.”"

That last quote states quite well what I think is one of the most-overlooked points in the “anti-piracy” debate: who are the real pirates? “Piracy,” we tend to forget, means boarding a ship by force, taking its occupants hostage, robbing them of their goods and rights. Sounds very much like what proprietary systems and software, and DRM, and a boatload of other online restrictions do to our computers, no?