The Digital Freedom Campaign is about protecting the rights of individuals, including artists, innovators, and consumers, to use digital technology free of unreasonable government restrictions or the threat of costly lawsuits from the big recording labels and movie studios.   Digital technology enables anyone and everyone to be an artist and an innovator - to produce music, to create cutting edge films and videos, and to reach new audiences.  It allows individuals to enjoy these new works when they want, where they want, how they want and to participate in the process.  These are basic freedoms that must be protected and nurtured. 

But digital technology is now under fierce attack by the major recording labels and studios, who view new technologies as a threat to their antiquated monopolies over the distribution of music, videos, film, and other creative works.  They have resorted to costly lawsuits against new digital technologies and backroom legislative maneuvers to roll back the rights of consumers, artists, innovators, producers, and creators to use digital technology when, where, and how they choose.

This fight is not about piracy.  We can all agree that digital piracy and illegal distribution are wrong, but the laws they are pushing do nothing to stop pirates.  Instead, they penalize lawful consumers and innovators.  The primary targets of the big labels are any devices that allow individuals to record digital broadcasts of music, including from satellite subscriber services.  Put simply, they want to outlaw the ability of individuals to listen to satellite radio broadcasts when they so choose, banning TiVo-like devices for radio. 

But this fight is about far more than just satellite radio services.  The big labels and studios have attacked just about every new technology from the VCR to the internet.  Anything that threatens their aging monopolies appears to be at risk.  They have gotten extensions to copyright rules more than a dozen times, putting historic music, literature, and even cartoon characters out of reach to innovators for our lifetimes. 

It has reached the point that parents must fear for their economic future because their kids might get sued for lawful activities that the labels and studios think should be illegal.  Individuals and parents shall be confident and secure that they will not face legal threats or lawsuits because they or their children are lawfully enjoying the fruits of digital technology in their own homes.