Digital Directions: DRM: The Battle Observed
Is digital rights management necessary, or will it hinder the opportunity that lies in digital, networked content?
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An Orwellian Media Nightmare?
The fly in the DRM ointment is that infringers can easily overcome any technical hurdle that DRM imposes, with a modicum of skill and sufficient motivation to do so. The fallibility of DRM is so generally acknowledged that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) includes provisions that criminalize the circumvention of DRM. In July 2001, Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested for creating a product that overrides the DRM in Adobe’s e-book copy protection. His crime was the creation of technology that could be used to make pirated copies of e-books, not for actually pirating e-books. A jury later found that Sklyarov did not willfully violate U.S. law, and he was released.
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- Companies:
- Adobe
- Apple
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Places:
- U.S.
Andrew Brenneman
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