well, yes. I assume that refers to the fact that fair use has left the building.
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Beneficiaries of privileged exceptions who have been prevented from carrying out those permitted acts (because of the employment of DRM) have not used the complaints mechanism set out in UK law.
Amongst respondents of the study, it was found that user representatives were aware of the complaints mechanism but had not tested it, whilst individual respondents were not familiar with it. Certain beneficiaries found it too onerous to utilise the complaints mechanism and other beneficiaries were not aware of its existence. As a result, the UK complaints’ mechanism remains untested in spite of the existence of some problems, with some users finding it too impractical and others being unaware of its existence.
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Gee. Citizens (in theory) have a say in this? astonishing. Glad to see it's useless.
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Voluntary measures have emerged in the publishing field, but not all content owners are ready to act unless they are told to do so by regulatory authorities.
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Understatement of the year.
Anyway, the problem isn't that academicians are not pointing out how copyright/DRM etc. is only in the interest of the owners, the problem is that the politicians don't listen to them anyway. When they lobbied the EC to scrap the copyright extension they were roundly ignored, mostly, I assume, because of corporate shill
McCreevy.