UK government responds to BanDRM petition
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ban the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies for digital content.”
Details of petition:
“Recently APIG has performed a public inquiry into the use of DRM which has recommended clearly labelling DRM infected products (among other recommendations). We want the government to go one step further and ban the use of DRM in digital content. We believe DRM removes the freedom of choice between competing products and locks users into using a particular service. We do not believe that digital content should be cost free, but it should be provided in such a way that a person who has purchased a copy of it has control over that copy.”
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
“While there is good reason to expect the market to reach a balance as these new markets develop”
Why? If market forces reach a balance why are there so many regulators, offwat, offcom the train one etc.
Why expect a perfect market in an imperfect world.