British study: Don't legislate DRM

A new report by a British Parilamentary group has advised the government not to make DRM systems mandatory.

You can check it out here.

Interestingly, they cite that Apple should be investigated, because they check addresses of credit cards and prevent you from buying cheaper music from a different iTunes store. So much for the free market philosophy that we're all sold on...

Why DRM is Doomed

The problem is that digital rights management relies on locking content away, and as long as we have general purpose computers capable of running whatever code someone cares to write then there will always be ways around those content locks.

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