iPad Is a ‘Huge Step Backward’

As Steve Jobs and Apple prepared to announce their new tablet device, activists opposed to Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) from the group Defective by Design were on hand to draw the media’s attention to the increasing restrictions that Apple is placing on general purpose computers. The group set up Apple Restriction Zones along the approaches to the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco, informing journalists of the rights they would have to give up to Apple before proceeding inside