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DRM. The Good The Bad The Ugly. Team Tuna: Kevin Chu Kendric Evans Alice Nailiss. Terms to Know:. DRM:

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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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! Three! ah ha ha!

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

  9. 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?

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