Digital Rights Management
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| − | '''Digital Rights Management''' ('''DRM''') refers to a variety of techniques designed to prevent [[Computer|computerized devices]] from obeying the wishes of their owners and users, in favor of the wishes of those who created the hardware, software, content, | + | '''Digital Rights Management''' ('''DRM''') refers to a variety of techniques designed to prevent [[Computer|computerized devices]] from obeying the wishes of their owners and users, in favor of the wishes of those who created the hardware, software, content, or services used by those devices. |
Some forms of DRM are known as '''copy protection'''. | Some forms of DRM are known as '''copy protection'''. | ||
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* [https://archive.org/details/PinballConstructionSet4amCrack Pinball Construction Set (4am and san inc crack)] → [https://archive.org/download/PinballConstructionSet4amCrack/Pinball%20Construction%20Set%20(4am%20and%20san%20inc%20crack).txt TEXT] - An account of cracking a copy-protected [[floppy disk]] | * [https://archive.org/details/PinballConstructionSet4amCrack Pinball Construction Set (4am and san inc crack)] → [https://archive.org/download/PinballConstructionSet4amCrack/Pinball%20Construction%20Set%20(4am%20and%20san%20inc%20crack).txt TEXT] - An account of cracking a copy-protected [[floppy disk]] | ||
=== Commentary and criticism === | === Commentary and criticism === | ||
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* [https://www.eff.org/issues/drm Electronic Frontier Foundation: DRM] | * [https://www.eff.org/issues/drm Electronic Frontier Foundation: DRM] | ||
| + | * [https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html Free Software Foundation: Digital Restrictions Management and Treacherous Computing] | ||
| + | * [http://drm.info/ DRM.info] | ||
| + | * [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/feb/05/digital-rights-management What happens with Digital Rights Management in the real world?] | ||
[[Category:Information]] | [[Category:Information]] | ||
[[Category:Elements of File Formats]] | [[Category:Elements of File Formats]] | ||
[[Category:Encryption]] | [[Category:Encryption]] | ||
Revision as of 17:33, 21 June 2017
Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to a variety of techniques designed to prevent computerized devices from obeying the wishes of their owners and users, in favor of the wishes of those who created the hardware, software, content, or services used by those devices.
Some forms of DRM are known as copy protection.
Modern DRM schemes usually involve encryption.
Some critics of DRM call it Digital Restrictions Management.
See also
Links
- Wikipedia: Digital rights management
- Wikipedia: Copy protection
- Pinball Construction Set (4am and san inc crack) → TEXT - An account of cracking a copy-protected floppy disk
