Yesterday was anti-drm day and also a very, very busy day.

We (as in Stichting Open Media) launched a new initiative called Netcultuur.nl. This website is going to be a (Dutch language) website about the pros and cons of our more and more digitized society. Anyone can become part of Netcultuur.nl and share their ideas. All of our own content is copyleft using the Creative Commons BY-SA license. So we’re pretty excited and anxious to see what happens with this new project

So for our launch and being it being anti-drm day, we also took the opportunity to create an informational video and article with the title “Wat is (er mis met) DRM?” which translates to “What is (wrong with) DRM?”. Both, the video and the article are in Dutch and explain what DRM is and why it should be eliminated. I think it does a pretty good job in bringing this across, especially considering this was my first video edit I ever did with software. More than a decade ago I used some hardware editors at high school, but since then I never really did anything with video anymore. Man, it was a blast! I totally forgot how much fun it was to create something like a video. I can imagine myself creating more videos

Seems weird that less than a week ago Netcultuur was merely an idea and a registrated domain name…and yesterday evening we were already mentioned on national radio.

I couldn’t have done this without the help, support and mostly hard work of some great people:

Thanks to: Marten, Marco, Maarten, Hans, Jeroen !

You can also watch the anti-DRM movie directly here (for those without Flash 8 check it here: http://blip.tv/file/81931/