Digital Rights Management (DRM): Is It In Its Death Throes? | Linux Today

Digital Rights Management (DRM): Is It In Its Death Throes?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 12, 2008

[ Thanks to steve
hill
for this link. ]

“In this opening salvo, I will reprise the technical terms and
history of DRM and thereafter I will try to keep you abreast of the
issues for computer users in general and free software in
particular. Hopefully, I will in fact be chronicling the death
throws of DRM.

“‘The Skibbereen Eagle has it’s eye on the Czar.’ Thus did a
small, obscure Irish newspaper in West Cork in 1857 advise the Czar
of all the Russias about his China policy…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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