Comments on: Software makers ready desktop lockdown

Microsoft, Adobe and a handful of specialists target a slowly emerging market for server products that protect common types of business documents.

[ajbatac]

DRM and profitability

I'm not sure if anyone can come up with an app that can't be circumvented. I'd like to see something that won't in the near future. If there's anything like this, it will be another killer-app!

[PolarUpgrade]

This confuses a hankering for secrecy with DRM

This article confuses proposals to make corporate more secretive with digitial rights management. This is about making the work of sectrive people and secretive authorities even more secret on the pretext of the need to guard copyrights.

Digital rights management is an intellectual property protection issue; locking documents against unauthorized eyes is a secrecy issue which has no connection to digital rights per se.

Secreted data may or may not be subject to copyright and the right to limit distribution based on a copyright claim; and even if copyright applies the courts have usually deferred to the public interest value if secret data over and above privacy rights and over above digital rights (copyright) entitlements.

There is a need in such news coverage to set the terms of reference and be a tad more aggressive about letting the spin doctors set the tone and tenor of coverage as well.

[Ipod Apple]

distribution based on a copyright

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