Comments on: Apple, Sony sued over DRM in France

Let the consumers choose, French consumer association says. Two suits over companies' DRM are expected to be heard later this year.

[Russell McOrmond]

DRM always anti-competative

I find these conversations amusing at times. Inter-operable DRM is not possible because of the way that DRM accomplishes its claimed goals. What a copyright holder is doing is encoding their digital content and license agreement in a file format that is intentionally only able to be opened by a media player where the manufacturer is ?trusted?. This encoding may involve a vendor dependent file format, but even if it was a vendor independent file format it would still need to be encoded in a vendor specific cryptographic key.

Governments supporting legal protection for DRM if they ratify the 1996 re-intermediation WIPO treaties must recognize that they do so in opposition to a long list of established public policy such as competition, ICT interoperability, privacy rights, communications rights, cultural rights, ....

Submission to the Canadian Competition Bureau: http://www.flora.ca/competition2003/

If in Canada, please sign our Petition for Users' Rights http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/

[Russell McOrmond]

DRM always anti-competative

I find these conversations amusing at times. Inter-operable DRM is not possible because of the way that DRM accomplishes its claimed goals. What a copyright holder is doing is encoding their digital content and license agreement in a file format that is intentionally only able to be opened by a media player where the manufacturer is ?trusted?. This encoding may involve a vendor dependent file format, but even if it was a vendor independent file format it would still need to be encoded in a vendor specific cryptographic key.

Governments supporting legal protection for DRM if they ratify the 1996 re-intermediation WIPO treaties must recognize that they do so in opposition to a long list of established public policy such as competition, ICT interoperability, privacy rights, communications rights, cultural rights, ....

Submission to the Canadian Competition Bureau: http://www.flora.ca/competition2003/

If in Canada, please sign our Petition for Users' Rights http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/

Customers choise

This is kind of stupid, shall I be able to sue the record company
because they do not support records anymore. If I like to use a
turnetable can I sue the company for not supporting this format
anymore?

[unknown unknown]

Reply

Your analogy is a bit flawed in that this suit isn't about continued support for old media or your right to use said media. A more accurate analogy might be if every record company had their proprietary CD format and only player sanction by that record company could play said CD.

Customers choise

This is kind of stupid, shall I be able to sue the record company
because they do not support records anymore. If I like to use a
turnetable can I sue the company for not supporting this format
anymore?

[unknown unknown]

Reply

Your analogy is a bit flawed in that this suit isn't about continued support for old media or your right to use said media. A more accurate analogy might be if every record company had their proprietary CD format and only player sanction by that record company could play said CD.

[Thomas, David]

There Was No Deception

It has NEVER been a secret that iTunes purchases are designed
to play only in iTunes and iPods. What the heck is the suit
REALLY about?!

[Thomas, David]

There Was No Deception

It has NEVER been a secret that iTunes purchases are designed
to play only in iTunes and iPods. What the heck is the suit
REALLY about?!