在這篇網誌裡,跟大家分享一封電郵。追是一封英文的電郵,但我會用GOOGLE的翻譯功能,把它的內容變成中文。希望您會留意呢,哈哈!
*隨著新的平板設備,蘋果公司的史蒂夫喬布斯推空前
擴展到一個新的數字版權管理類通用計算機*
請簽名請願書,史蒂夫喬布斯在:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad
舊金山,加利福尼亞州,美國-星期 三,2010年1月27日-作為
史蒂夫喬布斯和蘋果準備推出新的平板設備,
分子反對數字限制管理(DRM)的
集團是由設計缺陷 手頭上提請媒體注意
越來越多的限制,蘋果將在通用
電腦。該集團成立了“蘋果限制區”沿
辦法的耶爾瓦布埃納藝術中心在舊金山,
告 訴記者,他們的權利就必須放棄對蘋果
繼續之前裡面。
DRM是使用蘋果限制用戶的自由的多種方式,
包括阻止安裝的軟件,來自任何地方
除正式申請商店,每次使用的調節
從iTunes 下載的電影。蘋果公司還聲稱,
繞過這些限制是犯罪行為,甚至對
目的是允許受版權法。
組織抗議,自由軟件基金會 (FSF)操作
經理約翰沙利文說:“我們有缺陷的設計運動一
成功的歷史是針對蘋果公司的數字版權管理的政策。我們
有組織的抗議行 動和iTunes音樂的DRM針對外界蘋果
商店,以及在壓力下史蒂夫喬布斯在音樂的DRM下降。我們
今天在這裡發出同樣的信息有關的其他 限制蘋果
是實施軟件,電子圖書和電影。如果喬布斯和蘋果都
其實致力於創意,自由,個性,他們
應該證明它通過消除限制,使創造力和
自 由是非法的。“
該集團要求公民請願書上簽名,呼籲史蒂夫喬布斯
蘋果的DRM移除設備。請願書可在:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad
“需要注意支付給我們的社會計算基礎設施
越來 越依賴。在過去一年,我們看到人類
人權和民主的示威者可以利用他們的技術變成
對他們的公司誰提供的產品和服務
他們依靠。您的電腦 應該是你的控制。通過實施這種
限制用戶,史蒂夫喬布斯正在建設一個舊的危害
我們的自由對他的利潤,說:“自由軟件基金會的主管Peter Brown。
其他批評的DRM宣稱,蘋果不負責,而且
是出版商堅持的限制。但是,在iPhone
和它的新片劑,蘋 果電腦公司不提供任何方式出版退出
的限制-甚至是免費軟件和自由文化作者誰
想給法律許可的用戶能夠分享他們的作品。
“這是一個巨大的倒退的歷史計算說,”自由軟件基金會
福爾摩斯威爾遜,“如果第一台個人計算機所需的許可
製造商為每個新程序或新功能,其 歷史
計算機將被視為令人感到沮喪極權主義的氛圍在蘋果的
著名的超級杯廣告。“
###關於自由軟件基金會
自 由軟件基金會創建於1985年,是致力於促進
計算機用戶的使用權,研究,複製,修改和重新發布
計算機程序。自由軟件基金會促進發展和利用 自由(如
在自由)軟件-尤其是GNU操作系統及其
GNU / Linux的變種-免費文檔和自由軟件。自由軟件基金會
也有助於 分散的道德意識和政治問題的
在使用自由軟件,它的網站,位於fsf.org
和gnu.org,是一種重要的信息源關於GNU / Linux的。
捐款以支持FSF的工作,可於
http://donate.fsf.org。它的總部設在馬薩諸塞州的波士頓,美國。
英文原文:
*With new tablet device, Apple's Steve Jobs pushes unprecedented
extension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers*
Please sign our petition to Steve Jobs at:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipadSAN FRANCISCO, California, USA -- Wednesday, January 27, 2010 -- As
Steve Jobs and Apple prepared to announce their new tablet device,
activists opposed to Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) from the
group Defective by Design were on hand to draw the media's attention to
the increasing restrictions that Apple is placing on general purpose
computers. The group set up "Apple Restriction Zones" along the
approaches to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco,
informing journalists of the rights they would have to give up to Apple
before proceeding inside.
(images from the action
http://i.imgur.com/nUtZK.jpg,
http://i.imgur.com/0wpvY.jpg,
http://i.imgur.com/iL2vT.jpg)
DRM is used by Apple to restrict users' freedom in a variety of ways,
including blocking installation of software that comes from anywhere
except the official Application Store, and regulating every use of
movies downloaded from iTunes. Apple furthermore claims that
circumventing these restrictions is a criminal offense, even for
purposes that are permitted by copyright law.
Organizing the protest, Free Software Foundation (FSF) operations
manager John Sullivan said, "Our Defective by Design campaign has a
successful history of targeting Apple over its DRM policies. We
organized actions and protests targeting iTunes music DRM outside Apple
stores, and under the pressure Steve Jobs dropped DRM on music. We're
here today to send the same message about the other restrictions Apple
is imposing on software, ebooks, and movies. If Jobs and Apple are
actually committed to creativity, freedom, and individuality, they
should prove it by eliminating the restrictions that make creativity and
freedom illegal."
The group is asking citizens to sign a petition calling on Steve Jobs to
remove DRM from Apple devices. The petition can be found at:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad"Attention needs to be paid to the computing infrastructure our society
is becoming dependent upon. This past year, we have seen how human
rights and democracy protesters can have the technology they use turned
against them by the corporations who supply the products and services
they rely on. Your computer should be yours to control. By imposing such
restrictions on users, Steve Jobs is building a legacy that endangers
our freedom for his profits," said FSF executive director Peter Brown.
Other critics of DRM have asserted that Apple is not responsible, and it
is the publishers insisting on the restrictions. However, on the iPhone
and its new tablet, Apple does not provide publishers any way to opt out
of the restrictions -- even free software and free culture authors who
want to give legal permission for users to share their works.
"This is a huge step backward in the history of computing," said FSF's
Holmes Wilson, "If the first personal computers required permission from
the manufacturer for each new program or new feature, the history of
computing would be as dismally totalitarian as the milieu in Apple's
famous Super Bowl ad."
### About the Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at
fsf.organd
gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.
Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.