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By: Nathan Weinberg
2007-05-14

One company, Media Rights Technologies, is trying to drum up some publicity for itself by filing a Cease & Desist order...

...against Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Real, ordering the companies to stop producing little things like Windows Vista, the iPod, iTunes, Adobe Flash and RealPlayer.

MRT claims that the DMCA's clause against products designed to infringe on DRM should also apply to products that do not have sufficient DRM, and that since those companies aren't use MRT's copy protection software, they should not be allowed to sell their products at all.

It's such a ridiculous claim, that I haven't seen anyone actually coming out in support of them. The DMCA doesn't want software to circumvent DRM, and these products honor that by only dealing with stuff that is not copy protected, or stuff that is licensed with their DRM. MRT is arguing that stuff that doesn't have DRM should be protected anyway! Crazy people. They just want to get their name in the media, and they've certainly succeeded at that.

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