Don't like Digital Rights (Restrictions) Management (DRM)? Don't worry, turns out organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF, "the leading [digital] civil liberties group") have your back.
Especially lately -- the Federal Trade Comission, who oversee this stuff, are holding a town hall conference on the issues surrounding DRM March 25 in Seattle (it's free and open to the public, more details here), and the EFF has put their weight in. This appears to be apart of the recent call for public comments from the FTC (bless 'em), the deadline for which expired last evening.
The EFF, however, went a much more thorough route than the average person, submitting a full 16-page document, which you can view through the source listed at the bottom of this article (it's a great read). To summarize, they call on the Commission to study DRM's effect on consumer habits, investigate whether or not the methods used are fully disclosed, and promote a set of "Best Practices" which would help lessen the burdens that come with said methods. Since even notorious companies like Electronic Arts have agreed in the past DRM "interrupts the user experience", this surely is not implausible to see come to fruition.
"DRM does not prevent piracy," said EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry. "At this point, DRM seems intended to accomplish a very different purpose: giving some industry leaders unprecedented power to influence the pace and nature of innovation and upsetting the traditional balance between the interests of copyright owners and the interests of the public. The best way to fix the problem is to get rid of DRM on consumer products and reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the steps we're suggesting will help protect technology users and future technology innovation in the meantime."
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