Sweden to ban DRM?
p2pnet.net News:- Remembering the pressure the movie studio cartel has, of late brought to bear on Sweden, labelling it a ‘pirate’ haven, here’s a brief, but interesting, item.
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Politicians threatens to outlaw “copy protections” (oh yeah!! <- my comment)
Government officials Hillivi Larsson, Tasso Stafilidis and Thomas Bodström (minister of justice) are demanding that the record labels stop hindering their customers from copying a legally obtained disc.
If the industry doesn’t listen, a law may be passed banning DRM.
Says Bodström (my rough translation): “We’ll be watching this closely and we won’t hesitate to take legal action if we see opportunities for the development of legal copying technologies being impeded.”
Larsson – p2pnet
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May 19th, 2005 at 9:34 pm
More background and analysis available at: http://constitutionalcode.blogspot.com/2005/05/sweden-threat-prohibition-copy.html. Notes that this DRM trade off with a coming prohibition of downloading is not that a fair deal for users and that this decision would be merely a recognition of the private use exemption. Also a link to a Swedish news article.