FTC et DRM décevants

[Benoît Sibaud <bsibaud AT april.org>]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/ftc-well-come-calling-about-deceptive-drm.ars
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/27/152205

« The Federal Trade Commission held its long-awaited Seattle conference
on DRM. As expected, agreement was hard to come by, but the agency made
clear that it has had enough of hidden DRM schemes and companies that
pull the plug on authentication servers and leave the users who didn't
pirate content with nothing. »

Il est question notamment du rootkit Sony, du manque d'informations
aux consommateurs, des EULA supprimant les promesses des publicités, des
serveurs d'authentification pour DRM qui disparaissent 

Un amusant exemple du zonage des DVD :
« Schultz even referenced the recent gift of DVD gift set from Barack
Obama to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. When Brown returned home from
his US visit and popped one of the discs in his player... region
encoding prevented it from working. »

-- 
Benoît Sibaud