[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [A2k] Re: [Wsis-pct] IP Justice Comment to IGF on Top Policy Issues for Athens

[Ian Brown]

Taran Rampersad wrote:
> Litigation is the original mechanism of 'Digital Rights Management', and
> it's what got us here in the first place - designing licenses so we
> wouldn't have to litigate as much. Litigation costs money. I'm surprised
> how many people are stuck on one implementation of Digital Rights
> Management. 

I do not think that the common usage of "DRM" includes the legal 
enforcement of restrictions on the use of digital content. It's about 
attempts at digital enforcement of restrictions on content use.

Technology is unlikely in most of our lifetimes to have the subtlety of 
understanding of (most) courts of the validity of the copyright and 
contract provisions expressed in these restrictions. This has led to the 
problems of which we are all aware with anti-competitive, invasive, 
fair-use-destroying DRM systems.