Legally stripping DRM from content

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Washington lawyer Steven Metalitz, the man who works for the Korporate Kopyright Kartells’ MPAA, RIAA and other “rightsholders” at the US Copyright Office, “strongly opposes any exemption that would allow users to legally strip DRM from content if a store goes dark and takes down its authentication servers,” says Ars Technica . “We reject the view,” the story quotes him as saying in a letter to the office, “that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works. No other product or service providers are held to such lofty standards.