Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 11, 2007 @02:04AM 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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Re:We're all complicit by wild_berry · 2007-05-11 04:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think I'll be writing something nonsensical in response to you and then claim its content has been protected. Just to be safe. If it appears offtopic, you've clearly tried to understand the content and that may well be grounds for suing under the DMCA's circumvention clause. Moderation of this post, well, that's grounds for me to take over the world.