DRM Team Tuna: Kevin Chu Kendric Evans Alice Nailiss The Good The Bad The Ugly

Terms to Know: DRM:  Digital Rights Management (or Digital Restrictions Management – according to the FSF) A term used to define technology (especially software) used to control access and usage of digital data and hardware. FSF:  Free Software Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement EFF:  Electronic Frontier Foundation, another non-profit advocacy group dedicated to free speech and First Amendment rights. UOP:  User Operation Prohibition, a form of DRM used on DVDs (Think FBI warning). Definitions paraphrased from Wikipedia.org

Terms to Know: Product Activation:  A license validation procedure employed by some software as a means to managed user rights. Definitions paraphrased from Wikipedia.org

FairPlay Apple's DRM solution for iTunes Pros:  Reasonable limitations: unlimited play – restricted computers unlimited burning – restricted playlists  Higher quality of music due to advanced compression method

FairPlay Apple's DRM solution for iTunes Cons:  Very closed format: Nobody but Apple can really work with it  No real choice: All iTunes downloads must be in aac format Plus, I hate these commercials.

Zune Microsoft Media Player, online music store and software  Plays music, displays videos and images, picks up FM radio  Shares with other Zunes  Shares with Xbox 360s

Zune DRM  “Three plays or three days, whichever comes first” Regardless of how it was obtained Even if you don't listen to it Once for you, once for me, once for her, once for... oops! You're done! Three! ah ha ha!

UOP User Operation Prohibition  Prevents User input  Widely used on DVDs to display FBI warnings, etc.  Becoming used more with advertising

DRM How important is it really? Does it work? Does it only target criminals? Is it really an efficient use of money/time? Do we care?