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DRM: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

If you use or plan to use digital media like CDs, MP3s, or DVDs, DRM will be an acronym worth getting to know. Digital Rights Management is a host of technologies designed to protect copyrighted material from unlawful duplication and sharing. There’s been much debate over the ethics of DRM due to a number of PR disasters, such as Sony’s Rootkit technology making user’s vulnerable to exploitation as well as more generic issues such as not allowing a consumer legal use of properly licensed media.

So, do you think DRM is good, bad, or just a necessary evil? Tune in this week as Ken and Brandon discuss Digital Rights Management: what it is, how it works, and where you’re likely to find it.

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Original Air Dates: Feb 18, 2006 / Feb 19, 2006

• Legal music means DRM
• Digital watermarking instead of DRM
• MPAA says DRM helps honest users
• Music lovers caught in DRM battle
• Music industry bangs DRM drum
• How digital rights management works
• RIAA Says Ripping CDs to iPod not Fair Use

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