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UK Government Advised to Promote and Adopt DRM

Posted by michael on from the gigo dept.

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.

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  1. Because they don't have enough power.. by kmak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in the US, now companies can take over the world! What will we do in 100 years?

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    I'm not the devil.. just his advocate.
    1. Re:Because they don't have enough power.. by jbottero · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      At first, I smelled a Soviet Russia joke here...

  2. Easy circumvention. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Convert it into ASCII
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  3. Circumcision in Perl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sub circumcise($)
    {
    my $dick = $_;
    chop $dick;
    return $dick;
    }

  4. Obligatory quote.... by botzi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..In Soviet UK, all your 99% of the actual speed of the bb connections are belong to us, cause with our new hyper-plan, you definitely can't find a way to use more than a 1% of the traffic limit....

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    1. No sig. 2. ???? 3. Profit!!!