Patent ID: 7383586

Claim:
One or more electronically-accessible storage media comprising electronically-executable instructions that, when executed, direct an electronic apparatus to perform actions comprising: inspecting, by one or more file system components, one or more digital rights management (DRM) controls from a tag of DRM-controlled content; determining, by one or more file system components, if the one or more DRM controls are simple DRM controls or complex DRM controls; if the one or more DRM controls are determined to be simple DRM controls, decrypting, by the one or more file system components, the DRM-controlled content into a decrypted form and providing the decrypted content to an application; and if the one or more DRM controls are determined to be complex DRM controls, providing, by the one or more file system components, the DRM-controlled content in an encrypted form to a DRM enabled application for further processing.