OFF Corps is a non-profit conservation organization. We exist to guarantee that centuries-old personal freedoms and physical property rights persist into the pure digital age.

The "digital age" has, of course, been with us for decades now. Consumers regularly purchase digital music, movies and computer software in the form of little plastic discs. The transition was simple and nobody really gave it much of a thought.

• Analog vinyl records gave way to digital compact discs.
• Analog video tape gave way to digital video discs.
• Physical calculators and typewriters gave way to program discs.
• Board games gave way to game cartridges and discs.
• Stubbornly, paper books have so far refused to fade, but e-books are gaining.
  

As a society, we simply carried all of our existing personal rights through by analogy.

Ownership

• I purchased a vinyl album, therefore I owned that vinyl album.
• I purchased a compact disc, therefore I owned that compact disc.
  

• I owned vinyl albums, therefore I could loan them, sell them or give them away.
• I owned compact discs, therefore I could loan them, sell them or give them away.

Access

• Libraries own books, vinyl, tapes and games, therefore they can loan them to all of us.
• Libraries own books, CDs, DVDs and video games, therefore they can loan them to all of us.

• If I found a newspaper lying around the coffee shop, I could read it.
• If the stereo was on, I could listen as well.
• If the TV was in the corner, I could ignore it or watch as I saw fit.
• Who subscribed to the paper, turned on the radio or rented the movie didn't matter.
• Published meant publicly available.

Privacy

• Personal behavior remained private.
• If I read a book or just carried the book to look smart, it didn't give me away.
• If I played an album or a CD a thousand times, it was only my business.
• If I watched art films on tape or DVD, it was my secret.

Anonymity

• I could discretely purchase a video tape or DVD with cash.
• If I wanted to research a medical condition, I could grab a library book anonymously.
• When I wanted everyone to know something, I pinned a message to a bulletin board.
  

All of these rights are now evaporating.

Unfortunately, they are neither guaranteed as natural rights, nor as legal rights. The above make up a special class of technical rights. Those presumed guaranteed in perpetuity by their respective technologies.

But, the technologies are changing. As we move from the physical to the purely digital, copyright holders are taking great pains to obfuscate these rights. Not because these rights are less important to society, but because these rights have always been inconvenient to their business intentions.

However, we need not barter these rights for convenience. Technology has returned to guarantee them again.

OFF Corps' mission is to re-invigorate our ownership, access, privacy and anonymity rights by taking advantage of the unique properties of The OFF System.