NEWSFLASH
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It is a remote kill switch inside your movies, books, and games.
It decides which devices may play what you paid for. When the company loses a license, closes a store, or shuts a server, your library goes off air. No refund. No appeal. The service decides what you own.
And the people who never paid? They hold the unrestricted copy. DRM punishes the customer and inconveniences nobody else. Paying full price gets you the worse product.
In a free digital world, buying something means you own it. That world is still available. Spend accordingly.
THE RECEIPTS
Every entry is a confirmed revocation. Real purchases, really taken away. This is what "buy" means under DRM.
purchased copies removed from readers overnight
every book ever sold on it stops opening
servers off, licenses revoked from libraries
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THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
How much of what you pay for do you still own? Watch the stairs. Tap a step for the story.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
1. Buy DRM-free whenever an option exists. Money is the only signal these companies receive.
2. Back the campaigns doing the legal work: Defective by Design, the EFF, Stop Killing Games.
3. Tell people. Most customers do not know their libraries can be switched off. Show them the receipts.
DRM-FREE PLACES TO BUY
Stores that sell files you keep:
GAMES · GOG, itch.io
MUSIC · Bandcamp, Qobuz downloads
BOOKS · publishers selling direct without DRM, and any store listed by Defective by Design's DRM-free guide