Tomorrow, May 4th 2012, will be Day Against DRM. Take a moment to reflect on the devices you perhaps use that may infringe on your digital Freedoms.

The short version is, many digital devices and software are designed to restrict the usage you can make of them. In some cases it is the device itself, in other cases it is the files you may purchase. For example, some e-books or films (movies) are sold in a way that do not allow you to use them in certain ways. There is even the incredible example of Amazon remotely deactivating the book 1984 from their Swindles (or Kindles ?).

Another interesting anecdote is South Korea's ministry of defense, they have decided to ban usage of Apple's Iphone because it is so restrictive that they cannot even guarantee the device is not recording them and sending data over wifi. The device is not under their control.

Visit the Day Against DRM website to learn more. See what you can do tomorrow, and after tomorrow.

Louis CK has been distributing his latest show directly himself without any distribution thieves such as I-Tunes and the like. The video is available as a download and this without any DRM attached !

Check out the little note to torrent users (bottom of the page), it's honest at the least.

In any case he's made a lot more money then he had imagined, in just 2 weeks over a million dollars.. at 5$ a copy (not too expensive for most people). Not bad. I don't know this guy (yet), but he seems decent as over 25% of that will go to charities.Read more here for more details.

Humble Bundle is back and it's cooler than ever (because it's frozen). The idea is:

• Pay what you want
• Support charity
• DRM free

The really cool part is that it will run on the operating system that reasonable people prefer, GNU/Linux. The games will also run on the gaming OS, Windows and the show off OS, MacOS.

Go get your copies at Humblebundle.com. Also note, just like last time, it seems that GNU/Linux users are far more generous than the users of other operating systems... .. .

There is something called the The Humble Indie Bundle #2 where you can buy a few video games for whatever price you want. These games work on MacOS, GNU/Linux and Windows, and do not have DRM though they are not Free.

Interestingly the sales statistics show that on average the GNU/Linux user will offer over two times as much of their money for the bundle.

Screenshot taken today, prices may vary with time as there are 4 more days to go.