Digital Rights Management

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This paper looks at the issue of digital right management (DRM), considering the arguments for and against DRM and whether it has extended the rights of creators of intellectual property.

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" "The advent of the Internet has caused a great deal of controversy and danger to holders of copyright protected works." (Girasa p. 187) The Internet also with digitalization made illegal distribution and piracy of copyrighted works easy for even unsophisticated users, leading to concerns by content providers like record companies, publishers, and entertainment software companies that they would lose billions of dollars in sales, as users switched to low-cost, high quality copying instead. DRM is a technological fix that makes copying impossible. DRM represents a range of techniques, but key is that technology is generally used to disallow the use of the media on computers, in order to combat piracy."

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