Jeroen Hellingman
Joined: 14 Jun 2025
Posts: 8
Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2025 10:13 am Post subject: DRM protection undermines acceptance of law |
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The legal protection for copy-protection is bad law, since it prohibits actions, without
- having wide support from the population (which is true for many aspects of copyright) - if the public were well-informed and able to voice its opposition effectively, such laws would never pass. The problem with copyright law is what I call the "Salami" effect. A few large players (publishers) have big interests, whereas most players (consumers) have only very small interests, which puts both groups on unequal footing with lobbying, etc. It is the lawmakers task to protect the public in this cause, but they fail time and again... (extending copyright from an already overlong life+50 to life+70 in 1995, wheras ca 25 years from publication is more than enough to achieve the public goal of promoting creativity, now legal protection for scrambling schemes, and so forth...) In a well working democracy, such laws have no place. The extremely low turnout at the last European elections, I believe, is a good measure for the democratic nature of the EU, and thus for the legimacy of the laws it creates.
- having no effective way to maintain the law (I believe laws should either be enforced or scrapted, having un-enforced laws undermines the whole legal system, in that people no longer take laws serious).
Lets lobby for copyright laws that:
- reflect the will of the people (as shown by their behaviour)
- achieve the public goals
- are not special interest laws, drafted by large publishers and accepted by lazy politicians.
- are easy to understand
- can and will be effectively maintained.
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