DRM Delusion For UK Petition

[GhostShip]

It seems the Uk government is rather ignorant of what DRM is about and parrots what the head of macrovision (the company attacking winmx ) says.

http://news.com.com/U.K.+government+rejects+calls+for+DRM+ban/2100-1028_3-6160760.html?tag=nefd.top

The U.K. government has rejected a call for digital rights management to be banned in the U.K., but has acknowledged that the technology could undermine consumer rights.

A total of 1,414 people signed an online petition calling for digital rights management (DRM)--which places restrictions on how people can use media such as software or music--to be outlawed. The petition, hosted on the U.K. government's e-petitions Web site, warned that DRM removes the freedom of choice between competing products offered for digital download or on CDs.

The government published its response to the petition on Monday and claimed that DRM could bring value to consumers.

I wonder who was writing this reply to the petition and whether they had received donations from the media production companies, we shall never know ...
"DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay," said the government, in its response.

[KM]

and the worst thing is they are actually stupid enough to think that DRM hurts piracy

DRM hurts consumers who actually buy the products by reducing what they can do with it, it doesn't have the slightest effect on piracy... if anything it encourages piracy, as piracy is the only way to get quality content

DRM is the best thing that the pirate groups they ever came up with - they were the ones that came up with it right?