Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-why-gplv3--22c781-In the crucial area of Digital/en

In the crucial area of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)&mdash;nasty features designed to restrict your use of the data in your computer&mdash;competition is no help, because relevant competition is forbidden. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and similar laws, it is illegal, in the US and many other countries, to distribute DVD players unless they restrict the user according to the official rules of the DVD conspiracy (its web site is http://www.dvdcca.org/, but the rules do not seem to be published there). The public can't reject DRM by buying non-DRM players because none are available. No matter how many products you can choose from, they all have equivalent digital handcuffs.