Our Danish neighbours may become the next country to change the DRM rules as Danish companies has chosen to support the proposal submitted in France regarding the consumers’ rights when purchasing digital media files. France proposal simply states that you can not use any kind of DRM technology that limits the files to a certain software or hardware, which could be a real blow for Apple, among others, whose music from iTunes Music Store can only be played with the company’s software iTunes or iPod music players. If the French law passes it would be illegal for Apple to sell music with similar copy protection in France. Now it seems Denmark is heading the same direction to support the consumers’ rights.
“TDC, Denmark’s largest telecom provider, as well as Dansk Supermarked Gruppen, a corporation that owns several Danish supermarket chains, both spoke out in favor of the bill. Like Apple, the two corporations have online music ventures, but they claim DRM interoperability would increase consumer choice and make it easier to shop for music. Denmark’s Minister of Culture, Brian Mikkelsen, also said that legislation to open up DRM formats would be introduced next year.”
France may have started something you could almost call a revolution against companies’ DRM usage and instead support the consumers. Hopefully “open rights” is a mentality that will spread to other companies beside TDC and Dansk Supermarked Gruppen.
Source: TechReport
