[CS-FSLUG] DRM is doubleplus good for business, Congress advised | The Register

[Fred Miller]

MickySoft and others have won - for now anyway.

Fred

"A report by the Congressional Budget Office has recommended that no changes 
to the United States copyright framework are necessary and lauds DRM as an 
exciting market opportunity for copyright holders. Allowing copyright holders 
to charge more for lost rights will provide an incentive for these copyright 
holders to make more works available, the report suggests. On the other hand, 
the report has decided that a flat fee model may lead to "economic 
inefficiencies".

As we discovered this week in conversations with CBO staff, that's only part 
of a much more interesting story: how US citizens' political representatives 
came to be so advised. In its own way, it is a minor American tragedy. It's 
strangely emblematic of the sterility of the copyright debate, at least in 
the United States, which has been driven down a cul de sac. For the phalanxes 
of economists and lawyers who engage in this, human creativity does appear to 
be a very distant and remote planet. And the CBO report illustrates this."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/14/cbo_copyright_report/

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