DRM products are defective by design. Time to tell users what they're buying

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling for the labelling of products encumbered with digital rights management - an increasingly important issue as we trust technology with our lives

Digital products are weird: they are inert without software to animate them, and software is so technologically and legally weird that it can be very hard to know exactly what you're buying.

But there just might be some clarity on the horizon, thanks to documents I recently filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), signed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), several publishers and public interest groups and 20 EFF supporters with important (and alarming!) stories to tell.