p2p news / p2pnet: DRM, Digital Restrictions Management, can’t work. It’s a physical impossibility.

Anything which can be seen or heard can be copied by one analog or digital means or another. End of story.

There are any number of snake-oil companies trying to make a living peddling “copyright protection” technologies, but it’s little more than a con game perpetrated by the firms making the applications, and the companies buying them.

Both sides want consumers – that’s YOU – to believe DRM actually exists.

But it doesn’t and this pic, sent to us from Australia by p2pnet writer Alex H, says it all.

Furthermore, the mainstream and lamescream media alike persist in running DRM stories as though there is such a thing.

“A huge disagreement over the correct way to apply digital rights management (DRM) of songs is emerging in the music industry,” says a Macworld story, centering on a UK government enquiry at the House of Commons slated for today.

UK indie label association, AIM, will give oral evidence before a UK government enquiry at the House of Commons on Thursday February 2.

“AIM chairman and CEO Alison Wenham, Simon Wheeler of the Beggar’s Group and Paul Sanders, founder of state51, will speak to MPs who are presently investigating DRM,” says Macworld, going on:

“They will argue against the major label position on DRM and file-sharing. They will say that they accept that: ‘The loss of some measure of copyright control is a factor in reaching new and enthusiastic music markets around the world’.”

But it’s really hard measure something that doesn’t exist.

“DRM is not – and we believe cannot be – a ‘policing’ system,” AIM states.

But of course, that’s exactly what it is, as stipulated by the entertainment and software cartels

Also at the inquiry, due to report in March or April, will be British Music Rights, EMusic.com, Snocap, the British Library, BBC, AOL, the National Consumer Council, Open Rights Group, PACT and the Film Council.

Also See:
Macworld – Indie labels reject DRM as music policeman, February 1, 2006

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