CPCM

The nominal purpose of CPCM is to “enable … business models,” but this is an incomplete account.

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CPCM is part of a global strategy on the part of the Hollywood companies to create a new regulatory regime that allows them to use their limited copyright monopoly over who can copy their movies to obtain an unlimited monopoly over who can design new interoperable technologies that challenge their business models.

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CPCM is often described as a system for protecting copyright, but CPCM has been designed to protect exclusive rights that are not in any copyright system.

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Global experience with digital television and radio broadcasting suggests that CPCM is unnecessary.

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But CPCM is capable of restricting all of these uses.

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CPCM is a system to “enable … current & future business models 18.”

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But within CPCM, the ability to open recorded programmes in a tool used for this purpose is limited by flags (such as the USI “Export Beyond Trust” flag) which rightsholders can apply or withhold at their discretion.

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CPCM is intended to form the basis of a regulatory mandate throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Latin America and all other countries that adopt DVB specifications.

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* CPCM is the latest salvo in a global campaign to restrict consumer rights that encompasses US initiatives like the Broadcast Flag and WIPO (UN) initiatives like the Broadcasters’ Treaty

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* CPCM is the DVB’s answer to the failed American Broadcast Flag, an attempt to buy the studios’ co-operation with the digital TV transition by offering them control over DTV devices

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