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Ten Reasons Why DRM Schemes Are Bad For Society

DRM promotes the premature obsolescence of devices and media. Digital formats and standards change all the time, and content that is restricted by DRM cannot be transitioned to a new format. In addition, many DRM schemes require communication with a central server to “authenticate” the product before it can be used.1 Once these [...]

Ten Reasons Why Free and Open Source Software is Good for Society

Free software1 promotes the study and improvement of computer programming methods.
Free software licenses like the GPL ensure that the whole community of users can benefit whenever an improvement is discovered, not just a few who “discovered it first.”
Open source code can be used to solve absolutely any problem for which it is suited or can [...]