[dundee] DRM - Making people criminals (either way)

[Iain Barnett]

On 14 Oct 2008, at 12:22 pm, Gary Short wrote:

>
> So now corps are making laws (regarding copyright) not our  
> government and
> courts, and that cannot be a good thing.

Call me an old cynic, but I thought it had always been such :)


> Whatever "rights" they code into their DRM
> solution become the definition of copyright law

I found out recently that the rail timetables, and what routes are  
allowed etc, are now based on the software that spews them out, and  
the definitions for that software aren't available to the public. I  
can't find the link.


Iain