On Thursday 29 November 2007 22:41:29 Matt Lee wrote:
> That's not DRM, that's rights expression, as you say. It's not managed,
> in any such way.
Digital Rights Management includes rights expression as well as restrictions
enforcement. I'd much prefer to have the term "DRM" taken back to mean
"these are the rights you have" so *you* can manage them. (aside from
anything else because its just more accurate) After all a digital rights
system should make it easier to track the rights expressed in a document
rather than restrictions. I must admit that this tends to break people when
I tell them that I think creative commons is a very good basis for DRM...
A system that's interested in managing restrictions should be called a
digital restrictions management system, since that's what it manages.
> I think Office 2007 can do something where you can't copy/print/forward
> certain mails.
You're thinking of digital restrictions management (though I prefer calling
that enforcement, not management), which is a subset idea. [1] (After all,
that's managing restrictions). I believe you're right that Office 2007 can do
that, but I wouldn't know about that.
[1] Why am I telling you (of all people :-) this? Even I know the FSF
prefers this distinction (rights to mean rights, restrictions to mean
restrictions), and it's one I agree on because it's *accurate* :-)
Or is this a subtle technique to get me to include this URL?
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html
:)
Michael.
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