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  Digital Rights Management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DRM critics argue that the phrase "digital rights management" is a misnomer and the term digital restrictions management is a more accurate characterization of the functionality of DRM systems, since the mechanisms allow the enforcement of any restrictions desired by the publishers, regardless of whether those restrictions actually correspond the publisher's legal rights.
DRM systems currently employed are not time limited in this way, and although it would be possible to create such a system (under compulsory escrow agreements, for example), there is currently no mechanism to remove the copy control systems embedded into works once the copyright term expires and they enter the public domain.
DRM has been used by organizations such as the British Library in its secure electronic delivery service to permit worldwide access to substantial numbers of rare (and in many cases unique) documents which, for legal reasons, were previously only available to authorized individuals actually visiting the Library's document centre at Boston Spa in England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digital_rights_management   (6445 words)

  
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Microsoft Research DRM talk Cory Doctorow cory@eff.org June 17, 2004 This talk was originally given to Microsoft's Research Group and other interested parties from within the company at their Redmond offices on June 17, 2004.
DRM vendors tell us that their technology is meant to be proof against average users, not organized criminal gangs like the Ukranian pirates who stamp out millions of high-quality counterfeits.
DRM systems are bad for biz This is the worst of all the ideas embodied by DRM: that people who make record-players should be able to spec whose records you can listen to, and that people who make records should have a veto over the design of record-players.
www.craphound.com /msftdrm.txt   (6720 words)

  
 Mindjack - The State of Digital Rights Management
DRM is any system that creates and limits a user’s ability to make use of digital content.
DRM is a late twist on an old paradigm.
DRM attracts as a defensive measure against this piratical onslaught.
mindjack.com /feature/drm.html   (2699 words)

  
 DRM: Digital Radio Mondiale
DRM is the world's only, open standard digital radio system for short-wave, AM/medium-wave and long-wave.
DRM can be used for a range of audio content, including multi-lingual speech and music.
The DRM system is designed so that the number of carriers can be varied, depending on factors such as the allotted channel bandwidth and degree of robustness required.
www.drm.org /system/technicalaspect.php   (429 words)

  
 Define digital rights management - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: DRM, DMR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
DRM products were developed in response to the rapid increase in online piracy of commercially marketed material, which proliferated through the widespread use of Napster and other peer-to-peer file exchange programs.
DRM technology focuses on making it impossible to steal Web content in the first place, a much surer approach to the problem than the hit-and-miss strategies aimed at apprehending online poachers after the fact.
ContentGuard's DRM product has four major components: a protection toolkit that allows users to decide on their own access and encryption rules, a distribution toolkit that helps users create interfaces for content distribution, a consumer toolkit that verifies authorization before content is distributed, and a
whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,289893,sid9_gci493373,00.html   (368 words)

  
 Digital Rights Management Conference
DRM Group Web site for a working group within a European organization that promotes voluntary technical standards; this group has just produced a draft of a report on how technology and content companies view current DRM standards implementations, and where they would like to see the technology go.
DRM and Emerging Technologies, University of Maryland Center for Intellectual Property.
Potential negative impact of DRM in restricting the use of personal computers from general-purpose tools used for creating and exploration to single dimensional appliances and the problems DRM may present to personal privacy.
www.law.berkeley.edu /institutes/bclt/drm/resources.html   (4748 words)

  
 DRM - Digital Rights Management
DRM can and is being used to remove some of these rights from consumers and it is for this reason that DRM on IP is a bad thing.
Many people will argue that their DRM scheme is fair and they can do whatever they want with the content they purchased.
DRM is like a locked door; it will not keep out the real criminal, but it will convince honest people to stay out.
www.drmblog.com   (5155 words)

  
 EPIC, EFF Letter to the House Jud. Subcom. on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property on DRM
In an attempt to secure content, many DRM systems require the user to identify and authenticate a right of access to the protected media.  In the case of Microsoft's eBook Reader, this means that the media software and users' choices in books are digitally linked to the hardware system and to the Passport profiling system.
Over time, DRM can change users' expectations about control and use of digital content.  For instance, some have speculated that DRM could condition individuals into believing that lending a book is a form of theft.
DRM developers also may be acclimating consumers to a pay-per-use business model, one where consumers lose rights to access content that they have purchased unless they pay for each use.
www.epic.org /privacy/drm/hjdrmltr6.5.02.html   (704 words)

  
 DRM Watch: 2004 Year In Review: DRM Standards
The OMA announced OMA DRM 2.0 early in the year, together with a compliance and licensing body called the Content Management Licensing Authority (CMLA), and it published the DRM 2.0 spec during the summer.
Security giant RSA joined in, and pre-OMA mobile DRM vendors such as Lockstream and SDC modified their technologies to conform to the standard.
The other standards body addressing itself to DRM interoperability is the Coral Consortium, whose initial members included InterTrust, its owners Sony and Philips, HP, Fox movie studios, Matsushita, and Samsung.
www.drmwatch.com /standards/article.php/3455231   (1492 words)

  
 Offsite storage Ireland: Data & Records Management DRM Ireland
DRM manages media rotation schedules for over 350 major Irish companies who can access their media via a planned rota or order on line.
DRM manages the storage of live records and archive boxes for many of Ireland’s top companies and can return documents within 2 hours of a retrieval request being received.
House of Hill have been at the forefront of the data and records management industry since companies first began to recognise the financial and corporate governance benefits of outsourcing their physical storage of archive records, business critical documents and magnetic media.
www.drm.ie   (194 words)

  
 Digital Rights Management DRM: Media Companies Next Flop?
An email sent by an RIAA spokesperson to Knowledge@Wharton stated that "DRM and copy protection are important parts of the creative process, serving to protect the work of musicians and labels and promote responsible personal use by fans.
According to Huesman, before DRM technology, content owners couldn't even track what happened to their property once it was purchased.
If DRM manages to be just successful enough not to be a burden, enough incremental dollars will go to the creative types to be worth the effort.
forum.ecoustics.com /bbs/messages/34579/192800.html   (1893 words)

  
 EFF: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music
Breaking the DRM or distributing the tools to break DRM may expose you to liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) even if you're not making any illegal uses.
Yet Apple's DRM frustrates first sale—just ask George Hotelling, who had to give away the login and password to his iTunes Music Store account in order to resell a single song.
DRM restrictions can change: "DRMs may be able to revoke your ability to use a Download — if you violate the usage rules associated with Downloads." "Real may modify this Agreement [which sets out the usage rules] at any time in its sole discretion."
www.eff.org /IP/DRM/guide   (1477 words)

  
 Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures
Previously, Digital Rights Management (DRM) focused on security and encryption as a means of solving the issue of unauthorized copying, that is, lock the content and limit its distribution to only those who pay.
DRM standardization is now occurring in a number of open organizations.
Their work will be important for the entire DRM sector, and it is also important that all communities be heard during these standardization processes in industry and sector-neutral standards organizations.
www.dlib.org /dlib/june01/iannella/06iannella.html   (2486 words)

  
 OMA DRM: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
OMA DRM is a DRM system invented by the Open Mobile Alliance Open Mobile Alliance quick summary:
Digital rights management or digital restrictions management (abbreviated drm) is an umbrella term for any of several technical arrangements which empower...
A filename extension or filename suffix is an extra set of (usually) alphanumeric characters that is appended to the end of a filename to allow computer...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/om/oma_drm4.htm   (607 words)

  
 The big DRM mistake
It turned out that The New Yorker added DRM to their DjVu files, turning an open format into a closed, proprietary, encrypted format, and forcing consumers to install the special viewer software included on the first DVD.
DRM is cropping up, it seems, everywhere, and people are discussing ways of getting around it.
TiVo added DRM allowing TV shows to include a flag that prevents users from storing shows for any length of time.
www.securityfocus.com /columnists/390   (1666 words)

  
 How To Remove DRM Guide; Convert Napster and Rhapsody Files to your iPod   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
DRM or Digital Rights Management is embedded in music files downloaded from services such as napster and rhapsody.
To be able to put your music on an ipod you must remove the DRM or you will not be able load the music files into the itunes interface.
So if you want to remove drm and convert all your protected wma files to mp3 then the fastest way conversions can be done using tunebite with napster files.
freemymp3.com   (955 words)

  
 Windows Media DRM FAQ
Windows Media DRM enables the license issuer to deny licenses to applications that use a DRM component that is known to be damaged or corrupted.
Having a robust DRM system in place ensures that a wide variety of the highest-quality audio and video content is made available to consumers.
The Windows Media DRM application programming interfaces (APIs) are open and published, which allows third parties to customize and extend their DRM systems.
www.microsoft.com /windows/windowsmedia/drm/faq.aspx   (3921 words)

  
 Boing Boing: Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM
DRM has never once in the history of the field kept a file from appearing online, or from being booted by organized crime pirates.
DRM may keep a naive user from buying a cheap DVD abroad and bringing it home, and it may make it possible to charge you for things that you used to get for free, like format-shifting, but it won't ever keep an honest user honest.
The studios have all the DRM in the universe at their disposal, but they're not using it to bring new material to market.
www.boingboing.net /2004/12/29/cory_responds_to_wir.html   (1200 words)

  
 DRM Home Page
For the latest happenings at DRM or to scan recent articles on the latest legal issue, visit our Newstand for articles, news releases, presentations and reprints by and about DRM attorneys.
She will maintain an office in Rutland, and work directly with DRM attorneys and staff in the Public Utilities Practice Group concentrated in the St. Johnsbury office.
Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC (DRM) is moving its headquarters in Brattleboro to more spacious accommodations in the Marlboro College Technology Center building at 28 Vernon Street in Brattleboro.
www.drm.com   (383 words)

  
 DRM
DRM (or Digital Rights Management) is used to protect Legal music downloads to stop people sharing them on the likes of Kazaa.
If (like me) you don't have a DRM capable personal MP3 player, you may as well not download the legal music at all, unless you plan to burn it to a CD or just listen to it on your computer.
It is not possible to remove the DRM from protected files you have downloaded from a peer-to-peer network or other computer because you don't own the license to use it.
uk.geocities.com /thetomcatslair/Entertainment/DRM/drm.html   (516 words)

  
 DRM Archives: PaidContent.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Reuters: Microsoft is pushing its Windows Media DRM, Sony has its own version, and Apple has its FairPlay DRM..In addition, cell-phone players have a consortium of carriers and handset makers known as the Open Media Alliance is developing its own DRM standard, OMA, for phones.
DRM Snakes Into More Places [by staci] : Self-destructing digital textbooks, a copy-protected USB drive from SanDisk that won't allow digital copies, DVD players that reject pirated media -- all part of copyright holder efforts to exert control over content.
Incompatibility, with dueling DRMs from Microsoft and Apple, is the bane, and it seems nowhere near being solved.
www.paidcontent.org /pc/arch/cat_drm.shtml   (10984 words)

  
 DRM | MocoNews.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Motricity has added OMA DRM 2.0 to protect 600,000 full-track songs and video service is plans to launch later this year…it’s nice to see someone go with an existing DRM standard instead of creating their own.
Nokia has delayed the launch of its premium music phone — N61 — until the beginning of next year, claiming it wants “to ensure that the phone, holding thousands of songs, would work on the widest range of music platforms and be a true “jukebox” mobile phone”.
The phone will use Microsoft’s DRM technology, which is compatible with most music services on the internet (not the most popular one, of course, iTunes) and allows the transfer of music from the computer to the mobile — and presumably vice versa.
www.moconews.net /index.php?cat=26   (3034 words)

  
 DRM definition - isp.webopedia.com - The Glossary for Internet Service Providers
Short for digital rights management, a system for protecting the copyrights of data circulated via the Internet or other digital media by enabling secure distribution and/or disabling illegal distribution of the data.
Typically, a DRM system protects intellectual property by either encrypting the data so that it can only be accessed by authorized users or marking the content with a digital watermark or similar method so that the content can not be freely distributed.
In designing and implementing DRM systems, there are two critical architectures to consider: functional architecture and information architecture.
isp.webopedia.com /TERM/D/DRM.html   (205 words)

  
 Wired News: The Year of Living DRMishly
DRM is intended to prevent unauthorized copying and sharing of copyrighted content, and does so by limiting whether and how files can be copied or converted into other types of files.
But after the company explains it is Apple's DRM that prevents the file from playing, users universally respond that they will go back to buying CDs that they can then rip into non-DRMed audio files, Cullen said.
Videos purchased through Google Video can be wrapped by Google-developed DRM that only lets a video to be played by logging in with the username and password of the person who bought the file.
www.wired.com /news/technology/0,70049-0.html?tw=rss.index   (838 words)

  
 I Hate DRM
Over the last couple of years and especially over the last couple of months, the DRM issue has really received a lot of press.
Every DRM scheme out there can be easily defeated by a person with the will, time, and money (aka pirates).
In a world that is completely wrapped in DRM this sort of thing would be impossible.
www.ihatedrm.com /cs2   (605 words)

  
 Entelligence: People will live with DRM as long as it's done right - Engadget
The issue of DRM has been raised again in recent weeks when Apple "broke" a popular utility that allowed users to bypass the DRM built into the iPod and allowed copying from the iPod to a PC.
Consumers, the argument goes, are against any DRM for their media and will not buy protected music.
I think the big issue with DRM (assuming you ignore the social toll, unprecedented levels of copy protection, and a ridiculous law like the DMCA) is that it has to be flexible enough to work how may conceivably want to use it on down the road.
www.engadget.com /2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done   (1717 words)

  
 Digital Rights Management
The company's moves in response to criticism of its rootkit-like DRM technology have cut it no slack with the security community.
But as market segmentation sets in, everybody is pushing for their share of the DRM pie.
Opinion: DRM is a complex technical challenge, and the IT industry tends to assume that challenges point the way to business models, writes eWEEK's Peter Coffee.
www.eweek.com /category2/0,1738,1258734,00.asp   (2144 words)

  
 PCWorld.com - Intel's Pentium D Equipped with DRM Capability
Officially launched worldwide on May 26, the new offerings come digital-rights-management-enabled and will, at least in theory, allow copyright holders to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted materials from the motherboard rather than through the operating system as is currently the case.
While Intel steered clear of mentioning the new DRM technology at its Australian launch of the new products, Intel's Australian technical manager Graham Tucker publicly confirmed Microsoft-flavored DRM technology will be a feature of Pentium D and 945.
However, Tucker ducked questions regarding technical details of how embedded DRM would work saying it was not in the interests of his company to spell out how the technology in the interests of security.
www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,121027,00.asp   (527 words)

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