Here is more from DRMWatch on the French legislation mandating DRM interoperability. A selection:

analysis shows that the provisions do nothing but undermine DRM. The problem is that the type of information necessary to achieve interoperability is also precisely the information necessary to render DRM useless: encryption algorithms, keys, content metadata, and so on. DRM would be reduced to the tiniest of speed bumps, easily surmountable with utility software that would become readily available. The boundaries between such "interoperability utilities" and circumvention software (hacks) would be erased, and the difference between legitimate and illegitimate uses of those technologies would revert to plan old copyright law -- which is where we started before DRM came into being.

But do read the whole article, very interesting.

posted by Solveig Singleton @ 9:12 PM | DRM & Watermarks, etc., International, Standards

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