Digital Rights Management

Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to a variety of techniques designed to prevent computerized devices from obeying the wishes of their owners and users, in favor of the wishes of those who created the hardware, software, and services used by those devices.

Some forms of DRM are known as copy protection.

Modern DRM schemes usually involve encryption.

Some critics of DRM call it Digital Restrictions Management.

Links

 * Digital rights management
 * Copy protection
 * Pinball Construction Set (4am and san inc crack) → TEXT - An account of cracking a copy-protected floppy disk

Commentary and criticism

 * DRM.info
 * Free Software Foundation: Digital Restrictions Management and Treacherous Computing
 * Electronic Frontier Foundation: DRM