Talk:Digital rights management/Archive 1

message: The topic of DRM is very political, and this should be reflected in the article, but at the centre of the topic there is a core technical subject. There is a problem with the definition at the moment, and it is that it only talks about the restrictive aspects of DRM. In theory and in the specialised literature, DRM refers to ALL types of management of rights online, even if these are not restricitve (such as placing a tracker to count acces, or XML with legal elements on it, or even Creative Commons banners). Restrictive DRMs have a name: Technical Protection Measures.  Anduin13 08:00, 17 Nov 2005 (GMT)
:Aw, you just made up the term "Technical Protection Measures". Nobody really uses it. (27,000 hits in Google, most of which are from DRM industry papers, the WIPO, etc.) And very few people refer to written copyright notices as "digital rights management"... in fact, you're the first I'm aware of.
:This is one example of many where common usage trumps technical picayunity. DRM is used by the vast majority of people to refer to software or hardware mechanisms for preventing "unauthorized use" of digital works. Someone searching for a definition of DRM in Wikipedia would be misled by your overly-broad definition. 12.103.251.203 19:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The TPM term is widely used by copyright lawyers, although it is somewhat WIPO specific.  It would be good to explain that DRM is often popularly understood to mean TPM (or vice versa); perhaps there can be a separate article on Rights expression language. Schoen 22:09, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Topic needs to balance technical and political aspects

message: This page seems to have substantial POV problems, as well as many markup and presentation errors.  It looks as if it was reformatted from an email message.
I would suggest, at a minimum, that the main article ought to concentrate on just the technical aspects of DRM, and the politics in various countries should be moved to separate articles.  18.24.0.120 02:05, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: POV problems?, cover only technical aspects?

message: There was no opponent's view of DRM which I just added, and will expand upon.  Some argue that DRM is nothing less then the beginning of the age of internet censorship, the digital imprimatur, so I think it important to share their viewpoints.  Especially important since one opponent of DRM is Richard M. Stallman of Linux / GNU / GPL who calls it 'trusted computing', and wrote a story where DRM is the mainstay and people revolt for the 'Right to Read'.
ShaunMacPherson
The link to Edward Felton's webpage is broken.
--Furrykef 00:39, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: needed opponent's view; dead link

message: In the article is a < sentence within > followed by EDIREC. Can anyone figure out what was intended here? I'll try to remember to come back and clean it out if no one can. ww 16:15, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, that would be my "EDIREC"...I've been linking up a couple of "REDIRECTs" today, and presumably some tab grabbed the keyboard focus at the wrong time, and I didn't notice that "addition" ;-) — Matt 16:37, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I don't have to remember now. Thanks, lowers the overhead load. ww 13:49, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: mysterious cruft! what to do?

message: The anonymous edit here reverted removed w/o explanation some associated with DRM examples. Perhaps they shouldn't be here, but w/o any explanation of why, ...  ww 16:11, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: on the reversion this date