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Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption

Posted by Zonk on from the interesting-legal-tactic dept.

TechnicolourSquirrel writes "Forbes.com informs us that the company Media Rights Technologies is suing Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Real Networks for not using its DRM technology and therefore 'failing to include measures to control access to copyrighted material.' The company alleges that their refusal to use MRT's X1 Recording Control technology constitutes a 'circumvention' of a copyright protection system, which is of course illegal under the Digital Millenium Copryight Act. I would say more, but without controlling access to this paragraph with MRT's products, I fear I have already risked too much ..."

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  1. Paging George Orwell! by notabaggins · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That is which not permitted is forbidden, that which is permitted is mandatory. I think that was Orwell. Either way, how Soviet. The greatest enemy of the capitalism these days are the... capitalists...

  2. Macrovision once did the opposite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Macrovision once threatened to sue our company if we wouldn't
    license their DRM - because their DRM doesn't work.

    The codecs we licensed for our products unintentionally ignored
    the Macrovision DRM. It was simply caught by the error correction.
    Macrovision threatened to sue the company I work at for violating
    the DMCA. This could only be avoided if we explicitly checked their
    DRM so we wouldn't ignore it accidentally. To check for their DRM,
    we would need to license their system.