tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4836626523730428629.post-65253346406274724142008-02-15T16:50:00.004Z2008-02-15T17:05:39.242Z2008-02-15T17:05:39.242ZDigital Rights Management (DRM)<br />“A system for protecting the copyright of digital data by enabling secure distribution and/or disabling illegal distribution of the data. Typically, a DRM system protects intellectual property by either enctypting the data so that it can only be accessed by authorized users or marking the content with a watermark or similar method so that the content can not be freely distributed.”<br /><br />Interesting subject when you start to go into it.<br />I had read about it but hadn’t taken much notice until a conversation I had with someone made me dig a bit deeper.<br />The worry was that someone could send a document with DRM embedded that we would store and it would then be unreadable at a later date due to a deletion or expiry date in the DRM setting. <br />It may not be quite that bad as yet because I understand that you need to be registered and have to accept the DRM policy. <br />But there might be a need for some user awareness here as I am not sure that a user couldn’t accept a DRM document by registering their email address and accepting the policy without us knowing about it.<br />There seems to be 5 players in this market, Microsoft, Adobe, EMC, Oracle and Liquid M/C. <br />If anybody has any more information or can provide more clarification, would be worth sharing otherwise it is one to watch particularly in the Vista and beyond territory.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CioBlog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>Peter Birleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151038202878630485noreply@blogger.com