09-14-2005, 11:46 PM
Love and esterelSep 14 2005, 09:07 PM But the new resolution is an important part of our plan, sorry we will submit it.
We think consumer rights are something important (we approved also the proposal "Labeling Standards) and also that encouraging "Worldwide media standards" will be useful for our high-tech economic sector [/quote]
But labelling is something different altogether. That's because you want to know what your food consists of, wherever it's made.
The worldwide media standard is in the wrong category for a start. It's not about free trade - it talks about restriction and regulation. That's not free trade. Free trade means you give companies freedom to do whatever they want. If they choose to protect their products with DRM, so be it. Why should a government care about that? People can choose not to buy DRM'd products. There's no harm in not having the latest (insert artist) CD. But there could be harm in eating wrongly labelled food. There might be harm for the company selling DRM'd CD's or whatever, but that's how business works. You don't need to tell them how to operate their business. That only gets in the way of economic development.
So, please seriously reconsider that resolution and whether the UN should dictate the marketing plans of entertainment companies. The UN isn't there for every idea you have. Restrict your resolutions to what really matters on an international level. Promoting the entertainment business is not a government's job. Not national, certainly not international. Promoting the entertainment business is a job for the entertainment business.
But whatever you do, it most certainly isn't "free trade".
We think consumer rights are something important (we approved also the proposal "Labeling Standards) and also that encouraging "Worldwide media standards" will be useful for our high-tech economic sector [/quote]
But labelling is something different altogether. That's because you want to know what your food consists of, wherever it's made.
The worldwide media standard is in the wrong category for a start. It's not about free trade - it talks about restriction and regulation. That's not free trade. Free trade means you give companies freedom to do whatever they want. If they choose to protect their products with DRM, so be it. Why should a government care about that? People can choose not to buy DRM'd products. There's no harm in not having the latest (insert artist) CD. But there could be harm in eating wrongly labelled food. There might be harm for the company selling DRM'd CD's or whatever, but that's how business works. You don't need to tell them how to operate their business. That only gets in the way of economic development.
So, please seriously reconsider that resolution and whether the UN should dictate the marketing plans of entertainment companies. The UN isn't there for every idea you have. Restrict your resolutions to what really matters on an international level. Promoting the entertainment business is not a government's job. Not national, certainly not international. Promoting the entertainment business is a job for the entertainment business.
But whatever you do, it most certainly isn't "free trade".