France has come pretty far in its plans for stopping the companies’ ”unfair use of DRM” and we’ve earleir reported about how the Danish have been pondering about the very same thing. Now BBC reports that also Great Britain has started to pick at this phenomena. It has made surveys and are leaning towards introducing a clearer branding of both online and offline media so that the cosnumer are well aware of the limitations available when buying a record or downloading a song with DRM protection. Discs with DRM today have a small print on the back where it says what you need to play the disc, similar to a game or an application, and that there could be problems with some players or systems.
DRM by itself intrude on the fair use laws in GB by not letting people make individual copies of songs. Similar problems are found in other countries around the world where you are allowed top make copies within certain frames, but DRM prohibits any such things.
You could always hope for branding similar to the ones found on the cigarette packages, but that would perhaps taking it one step too far. That DRM would be a health problem similar to smoking is taking it all way, way too far, but still an entertaining thought.
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