EFF criticises EU commission group for being hell-bent on DRM
If you listen to rightsholding industry lobbyists long enough, Digital Restrictions Management starts to look like the only way to ensure healthy profits for an entertainment industry that is otherwise starved for profit-generating ideas.
Last week, the EFF criticised the EU commissions’ Networked Audiovisual Systems and Home Platforms (NAVSHP) group for assuming
that digital rights management (DRM) is the only way to foster development of the home audiovisual market.
So far, DRM has failed to reduce unauthorized copying or enrich content authors and performers, and instead has curtailed competition and sacrificed user-rights for the benefit of entertainment giants. A fresh inquiry could examine why otherwise law-abiding citizens have resorted to finding unrestricted material on peer-to-peer networks and look at technological systems that might encourage new artistic works and new business models.
They have a point there.