Call An RIAA Slug on Friday!

Our friends at Defective Design aren’t just cramming their pallid flesh into hazmat suits and getting into stand-offs with bemused Cambridge cops in their fight against DRM. Now they are organizing a massive telephone campaign, coordinating on their site an effort to have as many consumers as they can call up the RIAA and tell them that DRM just plain blows. Although hopefully a hell of a lot more eloquently than that.

    On Friday, June 23rd, we will coordinate a day of action, and this time it doesn’t involve yellow hazmat suits. You don’t even have to leave your desk. We will provide contact numbers for executives at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and similar organizations around the world. We’re asking you to proclaim your support for digital freedoms by calling the RIAA and telling them what you think of DRM and what you think of them!

There’s a handy form you can fill out: it looks as if what they will then do is email you a contact name and phone number of an RIAA exec in your area code. Very well organized. Of course, this is going to make a bitch of a day of the nation’s RIAA secretaries, who will likely have to field most of these calls. Tee Jee Eye Eff, ladies!

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