Digital Rights Management (DRM) is software intended to stop illegal copying by giving rightsholders control over how you use your digital media. But DRM doesn’t work: all DRM can be cracked, and it only takes one person to upload a song or film to a peer-to-peer filesharing system for millions of people to be able to download it. DRM prevents many legal uses of media files and chills market competition by locking consumers in to particular platforms.
BBC iplayer DRM raises its head again
Jim Killock 17 February 2010
Ofcom BBC HD consultation launched
Jim Killock 22 January 2010
Google Books: Open Rights calls for citizens to benefit, calls for copyright reform
Michael Holloway 07 September 2009
New fast-track P2P clampdown proposals announced today
Jim Killock 25 August 2009
Pirate Bay: blame lies with industry failure
Jim Killock 17 April 2009
Leading Academics Hit Out as Government Abandons Evidence-Based Policy on Copyright.
Jim Killock 25 February 2009
Sound Copyright conference attacks the "fairy tale" of copyright term extension.
Jim Killock 06 February 2009
Digital Britain: leaving consumers out of the picture
Jim Killock 29 January 2009
Consumers, citizens and information professionals around the world unite to condemn copyright extension
Jim Killock 21 January 2009
UK Government launches new consultation on copyright
Becky Hogge 18 December 2008
