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So the EU wants to trade monopoly for oligopoly?
"Open" DRM cannot exist. DRM requires a secret to work. If the DRM is open, then the secret is out, so the DRM cannot "protect" the content. The solution, then, is to make you join a "consortium" to obtain the secret so that you can work with the DRM.
Not much of an improvement, IHMO.
But, of course, the real use of DRM is to reduce customer choice and lock customers into a company. So I doubt that the EU's goals will ever be obtained.
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