Well, I just tumbled on this post on Groklaw (damn, love that site :) in which PJ publishes the fact that APIG has finished the C.R.A.P/DRM study they were doing in behalf of the British government (they started it last november)…and people like me would be happy at at least some of their conclusions and recommendations:
A recommendation that OFCOM publish guidance to make it clear that
companies distributing Technical Protection Measures systems in the UK
would, if they have features such as those in Sony-BMG’s MediaMax and
XCP systems, run a significant risk of being prosecuted for criminal
actions.
How do you like that one? At last, one government institution that sees Sony-style C.R.A.P the way it should be seen…as a criminal action.
Other things to note are their recommendations on mandatory C.R.A.P (don’t legislate such thing) and on exemptions (much wider-ranging ones) for academic research.
In other words, APIG recommends that buyers and users be treated as buyers and users and not as criminals…and that criminals be treated as criminals…that is a hell of a refreshing thing to see :)
The full report is in PDF, but APIG has a list of keypoints in this page that’ll give you an overview of what the whole report entails…it’s worth reading the whole thing, specially for those in the UK…but also for us outside the UK that want the world to know that we *do* care and we *do* want to be treated like buyers and users and not like criminals.
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