Imagine There's No DRM... I Wonder if You Can

Tekla S. Perry, IEEE Spectrum

Digital rights management, the group of technologies that control copying and use of digital media downloads and disks, has infuriated consumers since its inception in the mid-1990s...

If the industry moves in the direction of lifting DRM and “we end up in a world in which music is sold in an unrestricted format as a default, we have the world we want to live in,” says Jason Schultz, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a consumer advocacy organization.

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