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[Manuel A. Fernández Montecelo]

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From: Rui Miguel Seabra <rms en 1407.org>
To: Rui Silva Seabra <rms en 1407.org>
Subject: [ANSOL-geral]MS Office 11 vai incluir Digital Restrictions Management
Date: 24 Feb 2003 14:33:34 +0000

Viva,

Um documento em inglês, mas bastante acessível, tenta explicar o que é e
o que não é Digital Restrictions Management, quais os seus malefícios.

Já falei disto com algumas pessoas, que me chamaram de paranóico.
Bem, o receio da implementação de DRM no email e em documentos foi já
previsto em 2001, e trata-se apenas de um dos seus potencialmente piores
malefícios... CONFIRMADOS.

http://www.timj.co.uk/digiculture/drm.php

Digital culture : The Fallacy of DRM
Whether you're a technical computer user or not, over coming months you
are going to hear an increasing amount about Digital "Rights" (a
euphemism for 'Restrictions') Management, otherwise known as DRM, or
sometimes IRM ('I' for 'Information'). Sometimes it will be explicitly
mentioned, sometimes it will be implicit in features of software that
claim to be able to restrict how someone else uses some data you give
them. For example, Microsoft Corporation have recently announced that
DRM will be a part of Office 11
[http://officebeta.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010397891033].

But why should you care? In this document, I'll try to summarise and
briefly explain what DRM is, what some of the key problems with it are,
and why you should refuse to accept it.


Tópicos cobertos:
 * What is DRM/IRM?
 * 'Trusted Computing'?
 * Interoperability down the drain - incompatibility to rule
 * Letting companies make laws
 * Dangerous consequences
 * The hardware factor
 * The fallacy of DRM: technical solutions to social problems
 * What can be done?
 * Related links

Rui

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