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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Death to the company... by Dog-Cow · 2007-05-11 02:43 · Score: 0, Troll

employees. The only answer to greedy, immoral shit like this is to behead those that participate. There is no valid reason these people should be alive. The day corporal punishment became taboo is the day that Western civilization ended. No one has to take any responsibility and every single child is taught that nothing is their fault. Is it any wonder that more and more crap like this happens every moment?