Hi all.

Please consider the petition for the beloved persons in government to look at banning DRM.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/bandrm/

I won't go on at great length about the evils of hardware, software and commercial media being "defective by design", of paying consumers being penalised (and presupposed to be dishonest) while the "pirate" suffers no ill effects, or of the threats to innovation and Free software that this technology carries along with it.

This sort of nonsense is on the cusp of being an inescapable problem without much fuss, so those who have any issues with it might consider it important to make a noise at the earliest opportunity.

I will leave this in the hands of the reader, although if you were apathetic or inclined to living happily with defective systems, you probably wouldn't be reading this here.

Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone here's already signed it that wants to.

Apologies for the sort of spam, but hey, it's important.

Cheers.