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> A ban on DRM (digital restriction mechanisms), or at a bare minimum, making it explicitly legal to break digital restriction mechanisms if needed for any use
by ewillbefull 14y ago
> A ban on DRM (digital restriction mechanisms), or at a bare minimum, making it explicitly legal to break digital restriction mechanisms if needed for any use that is itself legal.
I don't see how banning DRM entirely would ever be a good idea. Lots of code could be misconstrued as DRM, and there are a number of free speech concerns that remind me of bans on encryption up to certain key lengths. What about building DRM for research purposes, code analysis, etc? Why exactly would DRM need to be banned when it has always been so easy to work around?
- politician 14y agoI believe that the law should be either-or: either you can come to the courts to seek remedy for infractions of your copyrights or you can pursue vigilante justice through DRM schemes. If a company drops a rootkit into your computer because you popped in a CD, well, then I think the courts should wash their hands of it if that company then insists that their extrajudicial measures failed.