The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations. The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices.
Veoh was a YouTube-like site, funded by Hollywood insiders like Michael Eisner, but who got sued by Universal Music Group, claiming copyright infringement (using more or less the same theories used by Viacom against YouTube)
As the Defamation Bill was edging towards being passed, Lords including Labour’s David Puttnam have added an amendment that attaches ideas from the Leveson Report on media regulation, which may have stalled the bill for good.
The UK has been surprisingly open to reforming copyright law in a more reasonable direction over the past few years, though (not…
Well here’s a story that’s more than a decade in the making. Way back in 2003, we first wrote about…