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fumanchu314159 · 08-25-2010, 10:05 AM

Brazil recently made an interesting move on the DRM front by attempting to balance rights: it is equally illegal to lock media with DRM in a way that prevents users from doing legal things as it is for users to break DRM in order to do illegal things.

http://boingboing.net/2010/07/10/bra...yright-la.html

Also worthy of note is that a UN trade treaty is requiring member nations to pass laws against breaking DRM, so finding places where stripping DRM is legal is quickly becoming difficult to impossible.

08-25-2010, 10:05 AM	#43
fumanchu314159 Member Posts: 21 Karma: 430 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Göttingen, Germany Device: Kindle 2, Kindle 3 Wi-Fi	Brazil and DRM Brazil recently made an interesting move on the DRM front by attempting to balance rights: it is equally illegal to lock media with DRM in a way that prevents users from doing legal things as it is for users to break DRM in order to do illegal things. http://boingboing.net/2010/07/10/bra...yright-la.html Also worthy of note is that a UN trade treaty is requiring member nations to pass laws against breaking DRM, so finding places where stripping DRM is legal is quickly becoming difficult to impossible.