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Digital Rights Management
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ALSO CALLED: Digital Goods Distribution, Secure eCommerce, ERM, Rights, Enterprise Rights Management, DRM, Secure Electronic Commerce, and Secure Digital Commerce
DEFINITION: Digital rights management (DRM) is a systematic approach to copyright protection for digital media. DRM's purpose is to prevent illegal distribution of paid content over the Internet. DRM products were developed in response to the rapid increase in online piracy of commercially
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DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): … marketed material, which proliferated through the widespread use of Napster and other peer-to-peer file exchange programs. Although online content is protected by copyright laws, policing theWeb and catching law-breakers is very difficult. DRM technology focuseson making it impossible to steal Web content in the first place, a muchsurer approach to the problem than the hit-and-miss strategies aimed atapprehending online poachers after the fact. DRM products are available …
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