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Anti-DRM T-Shirt Design Contest: The Winners are…

DRM is doomed to fail. Unfortunately, the majority of the movie companies and record labels still think it’s the best way to “protect” their media. By wearing these shirts you can show them it’s not and that it only hinders honest customers.

The contest turned out to be a great success. Nearly 50 designs were submitted and over 10,000 people picked their favorite during the voting round last month.

We’re happy to (finally) announce the winning designs. If you’d like to wear one of these high quality shirts, just click on your favorite design.

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The winning design titled “The Content of This T-Shirt Could Not Be Displayed” is from Mark Lindhout. In little over a week this design received 1608 votes. Congratulations with your $250 prize Mark!

anti drm tee shirt contest design

With 888 votes Adam Cooke ended in second place with his “DRM, It Just Doesn’t Work” design. Congratulations with your $100 prize Adam! This shirt is available in black and white.

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anti drm tee shirt contest design

The third place is again for Mark Lindhout, this time for “DRM, No one Admitted”. This one received 838 votes. You’re a lucky guy Mark, another $50 is coming your way.

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anti drm tee shirt contest design

The T-Shirts can be ordered at Beautiful Crime. They are sold for 12 UK pounds ($24) and will be shipped worldwide. The designs are screenprinted on 100% copyright free cotton.

We don’t make any money from this so don’t order a tee just to support us. Setting up the screens is expensive and premium quality shirts are not cheap either, that’s why the price is higher than we initially aimed for ($15). If you want to print your own shirt you can contact us for the source files for the shirts.

We hope you’ll all buy a shirt to show that DRM is not the way to go. If you have further questions you can send me an email.

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  • Jasper van Weerd

    T-Shirt ordered.

  • smartass

    How do we pay? Paypal, check…..

  • Cards

    Since you’re not selling these for profit, can you share the source images for the designs? I screen print myself and would like to make my own (for myself, not to sell.)

  • Thief

    Recreated the image and mass producing them now. Hope you don’t mind me taking credit and making some money while I am at it. Thanks.

  • Nelson

    If you want to teach the public about DRM the 1st place candidate will do nothing. Too wordy, arcane, and non-visual. On the other hand, the 2nd place candidate concisely explains that DRM and Music don’t go together. 3rd place, though more cryptic than 2nd place, is still much better than the 1st place pick.

    We can all agree though, DRM is a blight on consumers and publishers alike. It has not worked since my first exposure to it in 1980 on an OSI C4P chess playing program.

  • Adam

    I just wanted to throw in a big thanks to Ernesto. He did an excellent job running the contest from start to finish. We also had some nice chats after the contest.. cool guy all around.

    And thanks to all you guys who voted for and commented on my design (2nd Place). :)

  • Jordan Meeter

    Sorry, $24 is too much for a single shirt. Try making them $15 or so and maybe then I’ll buy.

  • Gingerwhitebread

    Why would I waste my time making a T-Shirt about DRM for a lousy $50 and then you’re going to sell my design? I don’t think so. I earned every penny selling anything with my design makes. It belongs to my individual mind. How dare you manipulate me into thinking I owe you or anyone else charity. “Give” is a dirty word spoken by beggars and thieves.

  • MasterNetHead

    @ Gingerwhitebread
    Whoa! Nobody asked you to *give* anything to anybody, did they? I’m sure the people’s designs that made it knew that they would be sold for zero profit. Besides, its for a cause, as far as I’m concerned.

    The second place shirt is the best, for sure. It’s visually striking. Square pegs don’t fit in round holes. Very nice.

  • KW

    Dude, gingerwhitebread, lay off the misapplied Ayn Rand for a bit; no one forced you to submit anything from your precious individual mind.

  • VAsu

    COOL……..:)))))

  • Matt

    @ MasterNetHead & KW

    Holy not getting a completely obvious joke, Batman.

  • Evil Jim

    So if you’re not making a profit on these T-shirts, who gets to keep my $24?

  • Mark J.

    In the spirit of the subject itself, I really think, publishing the source file (eps, pdf, anything vector-y) would be great. I love the third design but neither the cut nor the color of the T.

    Please share the designs.

  • scotty

    These are fun. I hope you’ll post the PDFs since your motives are not for profit.

    However, production costs must be insanely high in the UK or you are planning really short runs.

    You should get paid above cost for doing this since there is a lot of work involved in jobbing this out and in order fulfillment, but there is just no way that 1 color screen printed shirt should have a wholesale cost $24, even with a white under print for dark fabric–at least not in the US. I can’t speak for the UK.

    That being said, it doesn’t mean I might not spring for one, but the cost issue is an odd one unless you only hope to sell a very short run of each and don’t think you can spread out the screen setup charges. Even so two of them are 1 color (well, “two” with the under print but you can use the same screen.)

  • xharekx33

    i’ve done plenty of shirts for my band, using heavyweight cotton shirts (fruit fo the loom, gyldan, hanes…), with up to 3 colors printed, and *very* limited runs (50 to 100 shirts) and we got to sell them for 10 euros and we still make some profit…

    if you need to sell them for $24 to cover the production costs, the guy who’s printing the shirts is totally ripping you off

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  • http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto

    [quote comment="131306"]These are fun. I hope you’ll post the PDFs since your motives are not for profit.

    However, production costs must be insanely high in the UK or you are planning really short runs.
    [/quote]

    Feel free to contact me for the source files, so you can make your own print.

    We don’t expect to sell hundreds of shirts so the printing has to be more or less on-demand. Setting up the screens is relatively expensive.

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  • Tibloto

    $24+shipping is a tad high. If you want to keep things domestic (US) and only pay $15, here’s an anti-DRM t-shirt that wasn’t included in the contest:

    http://www.nudatees.com/shop/25/i_wipe_my_ass

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  • Willy

    A few years back, 12 UK pounds would have only been $18. Much closer to the $15 target. Too bad the $ is going to hell. Anyone producing these non-profit on these shores?

  • Weeber

    Is a shame, this was the better:
    http://torrentfreak.com/images/anti-drm34.jpg

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  • Michael

    Weeber. In case you didn’t know, that’s not better than anything. It’s just plain vulgar, and in very poor taste.
    The reason that the winning design came top is because of its subtlety and simplicity, expressed through sublime parody, as opposed to gross sexual allusions.

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  • Willy

    @Michael – Nope. You’re wrong. His suggestion *is* better than the winner. But not better than 2nd and 3rd place.

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  • Andrew

    It totally depends what you want. I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing the second place one, that’s a kind of design that people going to protest DRM would wear. The third place t-shirt is alright, but I do think the one that won is deserved. Yeah, ok, it doesn’t talk about DRM or music specifically, but it’s original and clever (in comparison at least).

  • Andrew

    Oh, and as for the price, I think it’s reasonable, especially if the people printing the t-shirts are the ones paying the winners the prize money, otherwise, maybe it’s not all that great…

  • adyo

    3rd shirt shoulda taken first. 1st second and 2nd one… not really sure why it won anything.

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  • Jon

    Hmmn, how do you buy one?

    The site linked just says ‘Sold’, did they all really sell out in 12 days?

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  • Cristobal

    I like it and the background and colors make it easy to read%

  • Gustav

    Thanks for your project. I like this site. KEEP IT UP..i

  • Isaac

    Very good web site, great work and thank you for your service.%

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  • emily

    yah..its really nice
    Rhinestone t-shirts ith different varieties are good and gives a cool and calm looking
    custom t shirts
    Regards,
    emily.

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  • Bob

    Nice article…People will really appreciate it..Keep it up..
    http://www.funnytshirtz.com

  • Nikolet

    Nice site!

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