World to FTC: No DRM in our Games

Posted by Eric on February 16, 2009

In what should come as no surprise to most in the technology community, the Federal Trade Commission’s recent call for comments in regard to its March Digital Rights Management Town Hall Meeting has turned up a vast amount protest against DRM. Interestingly enough, the majority of the comments focused not on the traditional DRM embedded in movies and music, but instead on specific DRM that is found in video games. 

Based on a sampling of over 700 public comments currently posted at the FTC site, it’s obvious that gamers took the opportunity to write to the FTC about issues they’ve encountered with the DRM technologies typically found in PC games.  Comments so far range from a simple mantra to deep philosophical meanderings to the near incomprehensible (although, to be fair, there are a quite a few well thought out arguments). 

The event will take place March 25th at the University of Washington Law School and will be webcasted. An agenda posted by the FTC is available for all to look at.

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