The initial of the name is somewhat confusing. We usually see DRM in the sense if Digital Rights Management which is something that as I understand is something that this movement is against :-)
-- Ori Idan On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > On Monday, October 29th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Zvi > Devir: > > Israeli Digital Rights NPO > > Abstract > > The Digital Rights Movement stands between advanced technology and people > rights (in the broad sense). Technological advance provides us with new > products and new means of interacting with our surrounding. It provides a > customer more flexibility and new ways of using a given product. However, > it can be used to control and limit the usability of the product. For > example, a customer buys a product, a certain book. Does it matters if the > product is a digital book or an old-fashioned printed book? The customer > should have the same usability rights to read the book, the right to read > in private, without anyone knowing when and where it was read, to quote a > few lines from the book, to lend it to a friend, and to sell the book to > someone else. However, technological measures can curb, if not to render > useless, some of those rights. > > The Digital Rights Movement (DRM) was registered in 2010. It follows the > steps of the Electrical Frontier Foundation (EFF), which was founded in > 1993, and is the model of most digital rights organizations in the western > world. The main goal of the DRM is to protect people rights when are > endangered or threatened by technology measures. Consumer rights are only > one front. Privacy is another. Freedom of expression is a third. And there > are many more. > > Initial thought about establishing the DRM started during the struggle > against the biometric database law in 2009. We came to a conclusion that > there is no NPO in Israel which exclusively focuses on these areas. The > Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is addressing violations of > citizen rights of all types. The Israel Consumer Council handles only > direct violation of customers rights. Other organizations (Hamakor, ISOC, > Wikimedia IL) address specific aspects of the digital world. > > The DRM has only recently started to operate. It sends official stand > letters to the Knesset and different ministries, its members are > participating in Knesset committees. Recently, the DRM (with ACRI) had a > successful high court petition against the biometric database law, which > forced the state to recheck the necessity of a national-wide biometric > database for the issuance of smart identity cards. > > Further information on the DRM can be found in its website > http://digitalrights.org.il. > > ==============================**==============================**===== > > We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/where.**html <http://www.haifux.org/where.html> > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > ==============================**==============================**====== > Future lectures: > > 12/11/12 What more can industry learn from open source? Yael > Vaya-Talmor > > > ==============================**==============================**====== > > We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to > give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be > interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> >
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