Why DRM sucks

Earlier this week, the Westminster eForum held a discussion on digital rights management at which Derek Wyatt MP made some interesting proposals about getting the British Library to lead the debate on how copy protection and rights management should be regulated and managed.

Mr Wyatt is also chair of the All Party Internet Group. It will soon be publishing its own report on DRM, and it should make interesting reading.

I was one of the panelists asked to discuss the practicalities of DRM, but since I don't think that the encryption mechanisms which underpin rights management systems can ever be made effective or acceptable, what I said didn't go down too well..