This about sums it up
This and the fact that the iPad is choc-full of some of the most restrictive DRM ever to hit a consumer product. Defective by Design calls the iPad “a computer that will never belong to its owner.”
They’re sending this to Apple:
“Mr. Jobs,
DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to disable features, block competing products (especially free software) censor news, and even delete books, videos, or news stories from users’ computers without notice– using the device’s “always on” network connection.
This past year, we have seen how human rights and democracy protestors can have the technology they use turned against them. By making a computer where every application is under total, centralized control, Apple is endangering freedom to increase profits.
Apple can say they will not abuse this power, but their record of App Store rejections and removals gives us no reason to trust them. The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for media distribution. We demand that Apple remove all DRM from its devices.”
Sign the Defective by Design petition here.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:48 am
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January 30th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Apps were removed from the store over the last two years because it was found they broke pre-established policy, were technically flawed, or violated another organization’s copyrights or IP. No Apps have ever been removed from the store ‘just because. ‘
February 4th, 2010 at 10:18 am
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