Everybody knows that the digital locks of DRM on the digital media you own is a big problem. If you’ve bought a digital book, album, or movie, you should be able to do what you want with it—whether
You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web's core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to
We oppose DRM. | Defective by Design
The Ethical Tech Giving Guide replaces DRM-laden software and devices that trample user freedom and privacy with products and programs that you can trust.
Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.
Self-authoring LLM knowledge base
Prior to 6 months ago, I wouldn't trust an LLM to automatically manage my personal records. They were too dumb and too much of a liability. But recently…
Who owns your data?
A Supreme Court case about a bank robbery could redefine your digital rights.
Preservation Initiatives - Canadian Association of Research Libraries
DPC RAM Benchmarking Project CARL’s Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) is facilitating a national benchmarking exercise using the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM). This project fulfills one of the main recommendations from […]
DRM's Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It,
EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US Broadcast Flag, the UN Broadcasting Treaty, the European DVB CPCM standard, the W3C EME
Widevine | Google for Developers
Widevine DRM is Google’s content protection system for premium media. It is used by major partners around the world such as Google Play, YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu, Peacock, Discovery+, Paramount+ and many more. The focus of Widevine is to provide the best experience for viewing premium content over digital distribution.
DigitaltMuseum
DigitaltMuseum is a common database for Norwegian and Swedish museums and collections. It provides access to more than four million photographs, objects, works of art and buildings.
The Vintage Technology Digital Archive
Digital Commons: Our Shared Right to Knowledge and Culture
As the volume of cultural and scientific works produced and available on the internet continues to expand, the question of freedom to consult and use this immense ‘digital commons’ is becoming a critical one, particularly as cutting off access could entail serious consequences for education, cultural exchange, and even the health of European citizens.
Been thinking about what digital ownership could look like on atproto: NOT NFTs/speculation, but real transferable digital objects. An album, artwork, book, etc. with its own DID, provenance, rights, lending, gifting & resale. Access is a service; ownership is an object. PDS to PDS transfer.
If you’re running a fediverse server without a DMCA process, you could be exposed. Copyright’s “statutory damages” regime allows for massive and unpredictable liability. Learn more from our best practice guide: eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-a…
Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
www.eff.orgsay i was building something like goodreads on ATProto but ISBN doesn’t exist. is there an idiomatic way to handle public records in a shared way? i think i want both reviews _and_ books to be on the user’s PDS for true portability, but i also want books to be discoverable and have accurate info
Is this a thing? Something about private data on AT Proto, where a person could purchase content and have a copy of said content injected into their Private Data, so it could not be removed without their consent? I’m thinking “I’ve bought a copy of a book, and now the book blob lives in my PDS”
A deep dive on permissioned-data space access. The dials, policies, and the difference between handing out keys and revoking them.
Permissioned Data: Space Access
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