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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make DRM and associated technologies illegal in IT hardware and software. More details
Submitted by Matthew Slowe – Deadline to sign up by: 02 January 2008 – Signatures: 64
More details from petition creator
Digital Rights Managment (DRM) is a technology by which content distributors can dictate what consumers can do with their content to the extent that, for example, the PC that you own at home hides things from you, refuses to do something because it thinks you're trying to "tamper" with it, and potentially notifies the content distributor of this action.
Currently, Microsoft Windows Vista is pushing this technology on users with various hardware manufacturers complicit in it including Intel, ATI, NVidia, S3 and Matrox.
This petition asks parliament to make it illegal for software to actively disallow and subvert the operators intention even if it "thinks" that it "might" be illegal -- hardware is owned by the consumer and should remain such in the same way as cars do not disallow a driver to break the 70mph speed limit on UK roads.
Current signatories
Matthew Slowe, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- and also in DVD and Video machines
- Andrew Main
- roy scott
- John Talbot
- Kim Wall
- Mark Fendley
- Ben Charlton
- Bill Hayes
- Paul Nicholls
- Paul Osborne
- Jose Casal-Gimenez
- David Jonathan Navin
- David Bell
- Tim Bishop
- M Packer
- Roderick Euan MacLean BSc
- terry Piper
- Andrew Keith
- Matthew Hardy
- Carl Anderson
- Toby Cadoux
- Martin Burrows
- Mike Woodhouse
- Brian Dillon
- MBrotherton
- Paul Delhanty
- s d smith
- Chris Andrews
- Alexander Melhuish
- Gordon Barnes
- Jorge Bares Dominguez
- James Service
- Omar Balboul
- matt grimley
- Chris Church
- Gareth Howells
- Max Leach
- Paul Grimes
- Philip Groves
- mark allen
- Ray Britton
- Mark Trotman
- Craig Hennessey
- Ken Walters
- Damian Bere
- Jai Harrison
- Ian Gary Hope
- Diki Thomas
- Lewis James Jiggens
- Andrew Fitzpatrick
- Dr Richard Hall-Wilton
- David Nelson
- Adam Sampson
- Tim Roll-Pickering
- Stewart Brownrigg
- Suzanne Loane
- Steve Dunn
- Fred Barnes
- Cllr Gavin Ayling
- Stuart Leather
- Joe MacMahon
- Walter Phimister
- Peter Burkimsher
