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Erika Foreman

Digital rights management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices
  • Advocates argue it is necessary for copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their work to ensure continued revenue streams.
  • Some observers claim that certain DRM technologies enable publishers to enforce access policies that not only prevent copyright violations, but also prevent legal fair use.
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  • Many online music stores, such as Apple's iTunes Store, as well as certain e-book publishers, have adopted various DRM strategies.
  • Windows Vista contains a DRM system called the Protected Media Path, which contains the Protected Video Path (PVP). PVP tries to stop DRM-restricted content from playing while unsigned software is running in order to prevent the unsigned software from accessing the content.
  • In 2002, Bertelsmann (comprising BMG, Arista, and RCA) was the first corporation to use DRM on audio CDs. This was initially done on promotional CDs, but all CDs from these companies would eventually include at least some DRM.[citation needed] It should be noted that discs with DRM installed are not legitimately standards-compliant Compact Discs (CDs) but rather CD-ROM media, therefore they all lack the CD logotype found on discs which follow the standard (known as Red Book). However, these CDs could not be played on all CD players. Many consumers could also no longer play purchased CDs on their computers. PCs running Microsoft Windows would sometimes even crash when attempting to play the CDs.
Danny Thorne

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bittorrent copyright intellectualproperty

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  • "I visit a torrent site weekly to download this week's episode of my two favorite tv shows, House M.D. and The Apprentice. I work on the nights that both shows air on national tv, so I download a torrent file of each. To me, this is no different that setting the VCR to record something while I'm at work... but the benefit with a torrent file is that it takes up a lot less space than a video tape. I received a letter from my cable internet provider, who was contacted by NBC Universal saying that they'd tracked illegal downloading of a HOUSE MD file. It was a 'cease and desist' letter notifying me that, essentially, NBC was 'on' to me, and if they so chose, they could take me to court for pirating copyrighted material."
nagareochiru

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bradbury fiction games predictions ray science soft video

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      nagareochiru on 03 Apr 08
       
      To be perused more completely later; a few of the stories point to current trends in child care's and foreign relations' respective relationships to technology.
  • "The Veldt" — Two parents use an artificial "nursery" to keep their children happy. The children use the high-tech simulation nursery to create the predatorial environment of an African veldt. When the parents threaten to take it away, the children lock their parents inside where they are mauled and killed by the "harmless" machine-generated lions of the nursery.
  • "The Highway" — A community of simple-minded people living by a highway in rural Mexico go on living their normal, idyllic lives as the highway fills with people fleeing a nuclear war. The story ends with some travellers they help telling them about the nuclear war, and how the world is ending. After the travelers leave, the confused resident briefly wonders what "the world" is, and then continues with his life.
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  • "Zero Hour" — Children across the country are deeply involved in an exciting game they call 'Invasion'. Their parents think it's cute until it turns out that the invasion is real and aliens are using the children to help them get control of Earth.
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