Friday, October 20, 2006

DRM

Digital Right Management is one of the technology used to control access to and usage of digital data (software, music, movies). In the musical field, this system which protects author rights includes special size to encode titles and also rules for software and hardware.

To promote innovation, it’s important to protect author rights. However, abuses of this control exist and are getting more and more important. In the worst future, we could imagine that your music record is only readable 15 times on your cell phone of brand X, without any possibility to download on your pc or you mp3. That’s why a lot of people criticize DRM. Those opponents defend the conception of free software and praise a real share of knowledge. Moreover, it affects more legitimate purchasers of media than pirate media who hack the technology.

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