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Industry-Stacked DRM Workshop in D.C. Today

Posted by timothy on from the parliament-of-whores-insults-whores dept.

epeus writes: "The U.S. Commerce Department is holding a workshop on DRM today, and inviting 'stakeholders' to talk. The panel is loaded with the usual suspects -Jack Valenti, Mitch Glazier, Vivendi, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, with one 'customer' repesentative. Richard Stallman and the NY Fair Use group are going to protest and say that We are the stakeholders -- our computers are our stake, and DRM is theft. If you can't go, send in your comments or read mine"

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  1. Publicize this more by (trb001) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wish this kind of event was publicized more (ie, you won't see this on nightly news in the DC area, more than likely). Whenever I talk about DRM, my non-technical friends stare at me blankly or, worse, label me 'one of those extremists' in the computer field. I try to explain that it will affect them in that they won't be able to listen to their own music on their computer, etc, but it usually gets a reply of "That would suck" and then they go on their way.

    Nobody that I know outside of /. and the computer/legal professions really seems to be aware of this stuff. How do we make people more aware of the consequences of unopposed government restriction? That's my real question.

    Whatever the answer, I wish these groups the best of luck today.

    --trb