Will Microsoft control our information access?

/usr/lib/info has a neat little Opinion Piece on Digital Restrictions Management Technology (DRM).

The author paints a fairly scary picture of how this technology might easily expand to cover all formats and all electronic information, and how it might do so with the blessing of John Q. Public.

Microsoft has started building DRM into most of its content tools and Microsoft could incorporate DRM into its office suite, which could kill fair use. As if all of this isn\’t scary enough, look at Microsoft\’s plans for IE.

Full Story, and discussion.

July 10, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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