Philadelphia Weekly covers the FreeCulture anti-DRM demonstrations last weekend:
Saturday's protest focused on educating consumers about digital rights management (DRM), which is one way companies protect digital media. It's come into widespread use only in the past few years.
With DRM-which is included on some new CDs and on mp3s purchased from online music stores-a consumer might not be able to play a CD on a computer, copy a CD, rip tracks to mp3 or play an mp3 on a computer not authorized by the company that originally sold the song, for example. (The most popular online music store, Apple's iTunes, allows a user to authorize up to five computers to play music purchased online.)
(Thanks, Bill!)
