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Digital rights management has been and is being used by content provider companies such as Sony, Apple Inc., Microsoft and the BBC.
The use of digital rights management is controversial. Advocates argue it is necessary for copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their work to ensure continued revenue streams.[1] Opponents, such as the Free Software Foundation, maintain that the use of the word 'rights' is misleading and suggest that people instead use the term Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Their position is essentially that copyright holders are attempting to restrict use of copyrighted material in ways not covered by existing laws.[2] The Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other opponents, also consider DRM systems to be anti-competitive practices.[3]
Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management)
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drm Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term that refers to access control technologies used by hardware manufacturers, publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. It can also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices. DRM overlaps with software copy protection to some extent, however the term 'DRM' is usually applied to creative media (music, films, etc.) whereas the term 'copy protection' tends to refer to copy protection mechanisms in computer software. Digital rights management has been and is being used by content provider companies such as Sony, Apple Inc., Microsoft and the BBC.
The use of digital rights management is controversial. Advocates argue it is necessary for copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their work to ensure continued revenue streams.[1] Opponents, such as the Free Software Foundation, maintain that the use of the word 'rights' is misleading and suggest that people instead use the term Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Their position is essentially that copyright holders are attempting to restrict use of copyrighted material in ways not covered by existing laws.[2] The Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other opponents, also consider DRM systems to be anti-competitive practices.[3]
Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management)
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Mark Twain quote for the day:
.....substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. . . . It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone, or any other Important thing-- and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite -- that is all he did.
In 1886 I read Dr. Holmes's poems, in the Sandwich Islands. A year and a half later I stole his dedication, without knowing it, and used it to dedicate my "Innocents Abroad" with. Ten years afterward I was talking with Dr. Holmes about it. He was not an ignorant ass -- no, not he; . . . and so when I said, "I know now where I stole, but who did you steal it from?" he said, "I don't remember; I only know I stole it from somebody, because I have never originated anything altogether myself, nor met anybody who had."
- Letter to Anne Macy. Reprinted in _Anne Sullivan Macy, The Story Behind Helen Keller_ (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., 1933), p.162