Quote:Digital Rights Management (DRM) is an umbrella term referring to technologies used by publishers or copyright owners to control access to or usage of digital data or hardware, and to restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work or device. The term is often confused with copy protection and technical protection measures, which refer to technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital content on electronic devices with such technologies installed, acting as components of a DRM design.
The use of DRM has been controversial. Advocates argue DRM is necessary for copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their work to ensure continued revenue streams.[1] The Free Software Foundation suggests that the use of the word "Rights" is misleading and suggest that people instead use the term Digital Restrictions Management.[2] Their position is essentially that copyright holders are attempting to restrict use of copyrighted material in ways not included in the statutory, common law, or Constitutional grant of exclusive commercial use to them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation considers some DRM schemes to also be anti-competitive practices, citing the iTunes Store as an example.[3]
Not that it's such an easy question to answer as much as you were able to search for part of the answer but weren't willing to go the rest of the way with it.
Basically copy protection from every aspect....downloads, uploads, rips etc. DRM is everywhere.
yeah i kinda understood that it was copy protection put on different media types but does it affect me backing up my movies?
Thats all i really want to know..
and everywhere i seached gives the reply you wrote
And all that explains is what it stands for and how it pertains to video files being downloaded?
But why is there threads about in the shrink forum?
its no big deal i just figured there would be a thread i missed somewhere explaining how it affects people using DVD Shrink?
Quote:DRM and Movies
An early example of a DRM system is the Content Scrambling System (CSS) employed by the DVD Forum on movie DVDs since circa 1996. The scheme used a simple encryption algorithm, and required device manufacturers to sign a license agreement restricting the inclusion of certain features in their players, such as a digital output which could be used to extract a high-quality digital copy of the movie. Thus, the only consumer hardware capable of decoding DVD movies was controlled, albeit indirectly, by the DVD Forum, restricting the use of DVD media on other systems until the release of DeCSS by Jon Lech Johansen in 1999, which allowed a CSS-encrypted DVD to play properly on a computer using Linux, for which the Alliance had not arranged a licensed version of the CSS playing software. An unsuccessful variant of this scheme is the DivX format.
Microsoft's Windows Vista contains a DRM system called the Protected Media Path, which contains the Protected Video Path (PVP). PVP can prevent protected content from playing while unsigned software is running to prevent the unsigned software from accessing the protected content. In addition, PVP can encrypt information during transmission to the monitor or to the graphics card to prevent unauthorized methods of recording video.
This is all i found on there because im using vista it may affect me but i havnt run into it yet?
We've been dealing with DRM all along. It just seems Microsoft went a few steps farther than they did with XP. Microsoft in the end has made Vista more user friendly than earlier planned. Early release info had the OS being highly restrictive where copying copyrighted materials is concerned and there was supposed to be embedded code. That doesn't seem to have been incorporated in the final release. We have to watch though because Vista is still a work in progress.
