DRM or Digital Rights Management is a general term for any of several systems designed to restrict the usage of a copyrighted digital work by the owner of the rights to the work. For example a copy protection system on a CD you purchased to prevent you from making illegal copies. It is a controversial subject as there are many legitimate reasons why someone may wish to make a copy of a copyrighted digital work and they are prevented from doing so due to DRM.
For more see the Wikipedia article Digital Rights Management
Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and technology writer is an advocate of a more coherent stratgey to protecting author’s rights in this new world. He recently gave a talk to Microsoft about his concerns with DRM and their role in the implementation of it in their software products. He has put it into the public domain so read it here, download it, print it and distribute far and wide if you wish.
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