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Comment Consumer? Pah. (Score 5, Insightful) 177

by wiggys on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @10:40AM (#30045368) Attached to: Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans

DRM was never about the consumer. The only people who benefit from DRM are content providers. They use DRM as a way of unfairly controlling what you can do with the content you paid good money for.

Submission + - Museums, paranoia and draconian copyright laws

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on Thursday May 31, 2007 @05:00AM

Jo writes: "While visiting London recently, I experienced how stupid and annoying copyright laws can be. Visiting the Queen's House in Greenwich, for example, I was told I could not take a photograph (even with my mobile phone) of the paintings. Why can't I take a photograph of something I can see with my own eyes? Bear in mind these paintings were hundreds of years old, therefore the copyright claims to them have now expired. Worse still — visit the National Maritime Museum next door and you are told:

Non-commercial sketching is permitted in the NMM galleries and grounds. Sketching refers only to pencil and charcoal drawings — no painting or pen drawings to be undertaken without prior permission from both Collections Services and Collections Group staff.
I half imagined the museum staff to march up to me and demand "Ihre papiere bitte!"

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