UK Government Advised to Promote and Adopt DRM

aking137 writes "From ZDNet, the UK Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) are recommending '...actively promoting the development and spread of global DRM-related standards' on the grounds that 'The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter unless more progress is made towards combating digital piracy'. Also in the article: 'The massive popularity of peer-to-peer networks also needs to be urgently addressed, the BSG said.'" The report (pdf) is online.

Comments

Re:well alright then!

[ePhil_One]

You know, I was talking to my dad last night, and he said:

"If you don't get addequate controls on this computer to protect the copyright holders Intellectual Property, I'm going to have to ban that cable modem from this house!"

He then went on about how there wasn't enough taxes, and how the unemployement rate was too low to ensure that every man, woman, and child had access to the american dream...

Obvious typo.

[vegetablespork]

'The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter unless more progress is made towards combating digital piracy'.

should read

'The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter if more progress is made towards combating digital piracy'.

Re:Likely to falter?

[TopShelf]

Of course it is! Come on, a quasi-government group comes out with a report supporting restrictions on people swapping copyrighted material illegally. I'm sure that the whole reason they're doing this is to thwart OSS - in fact, if you think about it, the Broadband Stakeholder Group has the same initials (BG) as the biggest and baddest opponent of OSS out there, Bill Gates himself! Somebody call Mulder and Scully quick!

Re:Likely to falter?

[Zak3056]

....and downloading Free Software.

Is this a sneaky way of preventing the wholesale adoption of Free and Open Source software?

The quantity of tinfoil you must be using in that hat of yours almost makes me want to go out and buy stock in Alcoa...