摘要：On September 17, BEUC published a position paper on DRM (BEUC 2004). Without
doubt, the outcome of the High Level Group (HLG) on DRM ¨C frustrating for the solitary
consumer organisation participating (INDICARE reported; see Orwat 2004) ¨C was a major motivation
to prepare this paper. The 10 page position paper is a good opportunity to learn about
the views, perspectives, and requirements of BEUC with respect to DRM. First we will summarize
BEUC's particular perspective on DRM and its diagnosis of the actual situation. Next we
assort the requirements put forward by BEUC. In the concluding section we point to the great
challenge consumer organisations are facing when dealing with systemic and, in a way, disruptive
technologies like DRM which change the rules of the game.
