FTC Warns Against Deceptive DRM

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 27, 2009 @05:31AM from the we'll-come-calling dept.

Jane Q. Public writes "At the Federal Trade Commission's Seattle conference on DRM, FTC Director Mary Engle started off by referencing the Sony rootkit debacle, and said that companies are going to have to get serious about disclosing DRM that may affect the usability of products. She also said that disclosure via the fine print in a EULA is not good enough, and 'If your advertising giveth and your EULA taketh away, don't be surprised if the FTC comes calling.' Transcripts and webcasts are available from the FTC website." Update 18:13 GMT by SM: as Jane Q. Public was nice enough to diplomatically point out, the webcasts are no longer functioning, but transcripts are still available.

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TO READERS by Jane+Q.+Public · 2009-03-27 05:59 · Score: 5, Informative

The Slashdot editors chose to change my article to state that webcasts are available at the FTC site. They are not. There were live webcasts but (at least on my Mac) the links only worked when the talks were live.

So if you try to access the webcasts and it doesn't work, please don't blame me. The editors wrote that in.