Consumer Sovereignty and DRM
p2pnet.net news:- Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has, together with consumer organizations, drawn up a Charter for Consumer Sovereignty in the Digital World, the Financial Times Deutschland reports, says Heise Online.
Sites such as iTunes should, “open up their closed systems and thus give consumers a greater range of choices,” says the story, going on, “It ought to be possible, the authors declare, for songs sold at the iTunes Store to be played on devices other than the iPod, without consumers having to indulge in conversion orgies beforehand.”
The idea is to have the charter embodied in law on a European level, says the Financial Times Deutschland,and, “according to current plans the draft of the charter would be presented at the very latest at a conference of European consumer protection ministers in the middle of March. As early as the beginning of this year European consumer protection organizations had drawn up a joint list of demands aimed at opening up Apple’s DRM.”
Also See:
Heise Online – Apple & Co. threatened with opening clauses for online music shop DRM, February 19, 2007
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February 20th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection?
One of these things is not like the other.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
It makes me wonder just what’s up with german food or food production that they feel the need to lump these 3 things together? Did they have a huge wave of food poisonings at some point?