Anti-DRM T-Shirt Designs: Vote Now
Written by Ernesto on June 04, 2007We don’t like DRM, and we’re not the only one. Unfortunately, the majority of the movie companies and record labels still think it’s the best way to “protect” their music. Let us show them it’s not, it only hinders honest customers.
Here are the entries we received for the Anti-DRM T-Shirt Design Contest we organized together with Beautiful Crime. You can vote for your favorite design at the bottom of this page. The winners of the design contest will be announced this weekend.
After the voting round the winning designs will be optimized for printing and will be sold for approximately $15, more details on this later. If you can’t wait, feel free to copy these images, and print your own T-shirt!
We don’t plan to make any profit, but if we do we will donate the money to charity.
1. Magic Numbers
2. Bear
3. Outdated
4. Puma
5. Wall
6. Error
7. Protection
8. DRM-Hurts
9. Shot
10. Rekrd
11. Anti-DRM1
12. No-Music
13. Killing-Joy
14. AACS
15. String
16. No-DRM
17. Lock
18. Anti-DRM2
19. Doesn’t Work
20. Anti-DRM3
21. Stop-DRM
22. My-Media
23. ADRM
24. Dear Me
25. Disturbed
26. Dove
27. Unlock
28. Collapse
29. Negotiate
30. No-Thx
31. Don’t Rip
32. Globe
33. Free-DRM
34. Back
35. Discriminate
36. Suffer
37. Block
38. DRM-MPAA
39. Outside
40. Dont Ruin
41. Squad
42. Martin
43. Own
44. Handicap
45. Dog
46. Not-Allowed
47. Meet DRM
Voting Round Closed!
The Winners Will be Announced Soon
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Count me in with everyone else so far - 6, 19, and 38 are the three best designs.
To all those that are downplaying #34 as merely stupid and homophobic:
I am not homophobic, but I NEVER want to have any kind of mental picture of what gays might be doing behind closed doors.
Furthermore - I would personally rather be killed than sodomized.
Where can I get one? I really want a t-shirt with design number six.
I like 38 and 6, but 38 is clearer and easier to read. I’m not personally a huge fan of shirts where people need to get really close to read what’s written. Plus the green is very nice. I’d buy one of those whether it won or not.
I’ll take one of each. More exposure that way.
Hehe,
I’m wearing the magic numbers one ay this very moment.
Just bought it from http://www.cafepress.com/09f911029d
these are all really bad designs. sorry
Anti-DRM people are pretty bad designers - I voted for 10, I lol’d.
19 and 42 are both very good.
[quote comment="110195"]wait what are the numbers? i read the wiki and i didn’t see anything about it[/quote]
its the read out for a blue ray movie with aacs drm
[quote comment="110413"]Hehe,
I’m wearing the magic numbers one ay this very moment.
Just bought it from http://www.cafepress.com/09f911029d/quote
I dont like the designs…
Man, I laughed my ass off when I saw design #34.
Really great job, and I don’t perceive it as being homophobic at all…
Getting fucked in the ass is a great metaphor for DRM!
These are seriously lame. Any decent designers want to step up to the plate?
The problem is not in the graphics, most of which are well done. The problem is in the conception. For example, “I have a DRM” ??? WTF are they thinking? A Dream is a GOOD thing, and DRM is a BAD thing… it just doesn’t work. “Protection… your music needs it…” Hello, this is supposed to be ANTI DRM, not pro.
Many are too ‘punky’ or have gratuitous violent images. Some are way too geeky. I like subtlety as much as the next guy, but if it leaves even a geek scratching their head, it’s not working.
at Andy ::
it bite it…
OK, I’ll admit, 19 is a workable design with a good concept.
However, the “it doesn’t work” argument against DRM is a bit tired. While true, it misses the main point that DRM, while now working, also simultaneously does a shitload (why doesn’t Firefox know that word?) of other damage to consumers, to the industry, and to culture.
For fuck’s sake, DRM for years has screwed up the choices of recording hardware that have been available for consumers and prosumers to buy. The damage goes way beyond the fact that it is crackable. The main problem with DRM is not that it can be broken; the main problem is it creates all kinds of distorted forces in the industry that screw with freedom of culture.
@ Jason
my advise to you ::
seek proffesional help…
Oops, “while now working” in my post above should have been “while not working.”
Lachlan Hunt,
have you ever read The Godfather or seen The Godfather Part II? Maybe played Grand Theft Auto. I guess that’s the kind of protection they’re talking about, the mafia kind of protection.
You know, you have to pay the mafia for their protection or else they’ll ruin your business.
I think #7 is an analogy to that.
i would love an anti drm shirt if it was done well. sadly most of these designs are pretty bad bad as t-shirt design go.
I would buy # 14
I really like number 26 and 44 althought by reading the comments it seems like everyone has a little vendetta against it for whatever reason.
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