UK consumer watchdog calls for new laws to protect users' rights

January 17, 2006

StarGhost used our news submit to tell us "It"s about time this
was addressed. If record and movie companies continue in their current trend they will alienate people from buying traditional forms of media and may even push people into using pirated, unrestricted editions of their content."

The National Consumer Council (NCC) said anti-piracy efforts were eroding established rights to digital media. The NCC had little faith that industry self-regulation would adequately protect consumers" rights. It made its comments to a parliamentary inquiry into technologies that limit what people can do with CDs, DVDs and downloaded media.

No faith

In its submission to the inquiry, the NCC
said many consumers were regularly running up against the restrictions
record companies and film makers put on their
products.

It seems that Starghost's comment just about sums it up
for me as well! Thanks for the story, this is a most interesting
article.

Source: BBC