Re: What change could we make? (was Re: Letter on DRM in HTML)

+ 2013-06-26 Wed 20:32, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>:

> In fact, the technologies we're discussing are widely deployed without
> legal challenge. Not taking sides involves bringing the positive influence
> of the standardization process to any technology that is relevant and which
> has support amongst our members, within the policies are procedures we have
> established.

This is not true.

The DRM technology in DVD has brought legal challenges in France
(regarding issue of relying on copyright exception to make private
copies).

DVD-CSS has brought legal challenges in Finland regarding
technological measure circumvention. Under EU law, only
_effective_ technological measures are protected from (some kind
of) circumvention. In Finland, the court decided DVD-CSS was not
effective and thus could be circumvented with no problem (but I
think there were different outcomes in the US). 

The current DRM technologies in BluRay are bringing multiple
challenges in France, as the VLC media player tries to act
lawfully by not infringing any right while being able to play
BluRays.

And I'm sure there are many more.

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