Defective by Design, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 47 relations: Activism, Always-on DRM, Amazon (company), Apple Inc., Bono, Book burning, Broadcast Protection Discussion Group, CivicActions, Copyright, Copyright infringement, Creative Commons license, Digital rights, Digital rights management, DVD player, English language, Free software, Free Software Foundation, Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns, Grassroots, Hazmat suit, Henry Poole (technologist), Independent media, International Day Against DRM, Internet access, IPod, ITunes, Mass media, Mass surveillance, Media consumption, Microsoft, Monopoly, Netflix, Peter T. Brown, Planned obsolescence, Recording Industry Association of America, Slashdot, Software industry, Tag (metadata), Times Square, Tivoization, Trusted Computing, U2, Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, Windows Vista, Windows XP, World Wide Web Consortium, Zune.

2. 2006 neologisms
3. Copyright campaigns
4. Digital rights
5. Free Software Foundation
6. Hardware restrictions

Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

See Defective by Design and Activism

Always-on DRM

Always-on DRM or always-online DRM is a form of DRM that requires a consumer to remain connected to a server, especially through an internet connection, to use a particular product. Defective by Design and always-on DRM are digital rights management and Ethically disputed business practices.

See Defective by Design and Always-on DRM

Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

See Defective by Design and Amazon (company)

Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

See Defective by Design and Apple Inc.

Bono

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist.

See Defective by Design and Bono

Book burning

Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context.

See Defective by Design and Book burning

Broadcast Protection Discussion Group

The Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG) is a working group of content providers, television broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, information technology companies, interested individuals and consumer activists.

See Defective by Design and Broadcast Protection Discussion Group

CivicActions

CivicActions, Inc. is a services firm that provides technological support with a focus on free and open-source software to agencies.

See Defective by Design and CivicActions

Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

See Defective by Design and Copyright

Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.

See Defective by Design and Copyright infringement

Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". Defective by Design and Creative Commons license are intellectual property activism.

See Defective by Design and Creative Commons license

Digital rights

Digital rights are those human rights and legal rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, and telecommunications networks.

See Defective by Design and Digital rights

Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Defective by Design and digital rights management are digital rights.

See Defective by Design and Digital rights management

DVD player

A DVD player is a device that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards.

See Defective by Design and DVD player

English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

See Defective by Design and English language

Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

See Defective by Design and Free software

Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License. Defective by Design and free Software Foundation are intellectual property activism.

See Defective by Design and Free Software Foundation

Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns

Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns are the events targeted against a line of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Defective by Design and Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns are free Software Foundation and intellectual property activism.

See Defective by Design and Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns

Grassroots

A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.

See Defective by Design and Grassroots

Hazmat suit

A hazmat suit ('''haz'''ardous '''mat'''erials suit) is a piece of personal protective equipment that consists of an impermeable whole-body garment worn as protection against hazardous materials.

See Defective by Design and Hazmat suit

Henry Poole (technologist)

Henry Poole is a technologist and social entrepreneur, CEO of CivicActions and Board Member of the Free Software Foundation.

See Defective by Design and Henry Poole (technologist)

Independent media refers to any media, such as television, newspapers, or Internet-based publications, that is free of influence by government or corporate interests.

See Defective by Design and Independent media

International Day Against DRM

International Day Against DRM (IDAD), sometimes called just Day Against DRM or anti-DRM day, is a grassroots international observance of protests against digital rights management (DRM) technology. Defective by Design and international Day Against DRM are intellectual property activism.

See Defective by Design and International Day Against DRM

Internet access

Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web.

See Defective by Design and Internet access

IPod

The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on November 10, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.

See Defective by Design and IPod

ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.

See Defective by Design and ITunes

Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

See Defective by Design and Mass media

Mass surveillance

Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens.

See Defective by Design and Mass surveillance

Media consumption or media diet is the sum of information and entertainment media taken in by an individual or group.

See Defective by Design and Media consumption

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

See Defective by Design and Microsoft

Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

See Defective by Design and Monopoly

Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

See Defective by Design and Netflix

Peter T. Brown

Peter T. Brown was the executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2005 until early 2011.

See Defective by Design and Peter T. Brown

Planned obsolescence

In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable. Defective by Design and planned obsolescence are Ethically disputed business practices.

See Defective by Design and Planned obsolescence

Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

See Defective by Design and Recording Industry Association of America

Slashdot

Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.

See Defective by Design and Slashdot

Software industry

The software industry includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models, mainly either "license/maintenance based" (on-premises) or "Cloud based" (such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, MBaaS, MSaaS, DCaaS etc.). The industry also includes software services, such as training, documentation, consulting and data recovery.

See Defective by Design and Software industry

In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file).

See Defective by Design and Tag (metadata)

Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City.

See Defective by Design and Times Square

Tivoization

Tivoization is the practice of designing hardware that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license like the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.

See Defective by Design and Tivoization

Trusted Computing

Trusted Computing (TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group.

See Defective by Design and Trusted Computing

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.

See Defective by Design and U2

Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

The Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices.

See Defective by Design and Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

See Defective by Design and Windows Vista

Windows XP

Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

See Defective by Design and Windows XP

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

See Defective by Design and World Wide Web Consortium

Zune

Zune is a defunct brand of digital media products and services that was marketed by Microsoft from November 2006 until it was discontinued in June 2012.

See Defective by Design and Zune

See also

2006 neologisms

• Accountable autonomy
• Allophilia
• Copypasta
• Crowdsourcing
• Defective by Design
• Don't Hold Others Back
• Elf Yourself
• Fair play for musicians
• Friedman Unit
• Get a Mac
• Hipster racism
• Juan Crow
• Lolcat
• Metronatural
• New Atheism
• So where the bloody hell are you?
• Tautophrase
• The Other Iraq
• Toxic asset
• Yo, Blair

Copyright campaigns

• Captain Copyright
• Defective by Design
• Don't Copy That Floppy
• Fair play for musicians
• Home Taping Is Killing Music
• ICanHazPDF
• Knock-off Nigel
• Open Genealogy Alliance
• Operation Red Card
• Piracy is theft
• Who Makes Movies?
• You Wouldn't Steal a Car
• You can click, but you can't hide

Digital rights

• Access to Knowledge movement
• African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms
• Alternative Informatics Association
• Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
• Censorship of Wikipedia
• Data portability
• Data sovereignty (data management)
• Defective by Design
• Device neutrality
• Digital commons (economics)
• Digital divide
• Digital inheritance
• Digital integrity
• Digital rights
• Digital rights management
• Fair use
• File sharing
• Format shifting
• Free culture movement
• Free-culture movement
• Freedom on the Net
• Human rights in cyberspace
• IRights Framework
• International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
• Internet censorship
• Internet freedom
• Internet privacy
• Internet safety
• Legal aspects of file sharing
• Loi pour une République numérique
• Merlin Network
• Nani Jansen Reventlow
• Net neutrality
• News Media Bargaining Code
• Pirate Party
• Place shifting
• Privacy
• Privacy policy
• Right of access to personal data
• Right to Internet access
• Right to privacy
• Ripping
• Secure communication
• Time shifting

Free Software Foundation

• Association for Free Software
• Associazione per il Software Libero
• Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
• Defective by Design
• FSF Free Software Awards
• Free Software Directory
• Free Software Foundation
• Free Software Foundation Europe
• Free Software Foundation Latin America
• Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu
• Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns
• Free Software Foundation of India
• Free Software Foundation, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Free Software Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram
• Free software in India
• Free software in Kerala
• GNU Affero General Public License
• GNU Free Documentation License
• GNU Manifesto
• GNU Project
• GNU/Linux naming controversy
• League for Programming Freedom
• Leonard H. Tower Jr.
• LibrePlanet
• Ma3bar
• Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
• Swecha
• The Free Software Definition
• Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp.

Hardware restrictions

• Base Band 5
• Bootloader unlocking
• CIC (Nintendo)
• Closed platform
• DVD Copy Control Association
• DVD region code
• Defective by Design
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• EURion constellation
• Hacking of consumer electronics
• Homebrew software
• IOS jailbreaking
• Lockout chip
• Modchip
• NTSC-C
• Operation Tangled Web
• PlayStation 3 Jailbreak
• Printer tracking dots
• Regional lockout
• Rooting (Android)
• SHSH blob
• SIM lock
• Samsung Knox
• Texas Instruments signing key controversy
• Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act
• User operation prohibition
• Vendor lock-in

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_by_Design

Also known as Defectivebydesign.