From Katherine Noyes at PC World:
There are plenty of reasons to object to the restrictive digital rights management (DRM) technologies so often applied to music, e-books, and other
digital content, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has made no bones about its strong opposition to the practice over the years.
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“We’ve created this logo for suppliers to proudly advertise that their files all come unencumbered by restrictive technologies,” the group wrote in a blog post last week.
“People looking for e-books in places like Amazon often have trouble figuring out which e-books have DRM and which don’t because Amazon does not advertise that information,” it explained. “This label is a step toward solving that problem, making it easy for people who oppose DRM to find like-minded artists, authors, and publishers to support.”
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