Well, I’ve been insisting that I need to do one last interview: one highlighting the benefits of DRM. The thing is, I’ve been in contact with 5 corporations that have benefited alot on the topic – online subscription music services, online movie rental services, makers of DRM products. However, none of them have returned my calls requesting telephone interviews. So I throw out this plea to the community: if you know of any pro-DRM association that would be willing to discuss the issue, please shoot me off an email.
Apart from that, I’ve been taking a sabatical over the last few weeks to clear my head. I need to step away from this project, breathe, and step back in with a fresh outlook. In other news, the Bittorrent links are back up. Last I checked, there were still a few seeders out there. I have to say that you’ve been an awesome community of support. From telephone calls I’ve received with fruitful advice, to the many subbers, to the people that keep on seeding – thank you from the bottom of my heart. I mean it.
No word on when I expect v.1.0 to be out. I’m not sure myself – it depends on when I get this last interview done.
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Digital Rights Management
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Digital Rights Management or DRM (also called Digital Restrictions Management by critics such as Richard Stallman) is an umbrella term for any of several technologies used to enforce pre-defined policies for controlling access to digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware. In more technical terms, DRM handles the description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading, monitoring and enforcement of usage restrictions that accompany a specific instance of a digital work. In the widest possible sense, the term refers to any such management.
The term is often confused with copy protection and technical protection measures (TPM). These two terms refer to technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital media content on electronic devices with such technologies installed.
The topic is controversial. DRM advocates say DRM technologies are necessary to allow rights holders to exercise their rights, prevent revenue loss due to illegal duplication of their copyrighted works, and enable more effective market segmentation. 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. They claim that transferring control of the use of media from consumers to a consolidated media industry will lead to loss of existing user rights and stifle innovation in software and cultural productions.
The European Community is expected to create a recommendation on DRM in 2006, phasing out the use of levies (compensation to rights holders charged on media sales for lost revenue due to unauthorized copying) given the advances in DRM/TPM technology.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management
From: Hydraspun
P.S. Hope this helps those who don’t have a clue what DRM is.