Digital Rights Management

Technical measures taken by corporations to prevent you doing certain things with the music, movies or games you’ve bought from them. Managing rights sounds reassuring and friendly, but it’s really their own rights the media companies are managing. Sometimes sardonically renamed ‘Digital Restrictions Management’.

Videogame publisher EA Games uses ‘digital rights management’ to ‘stay in control of the whole experience’, but not all of its customers are happy

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