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Rootkits: Digital Rights Management, Spyware, and Security

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Sony-BMG and other record companies face some hard decisions. The Internet is transforming the distribution and promotion of music, and the industry is searching intently for new business models. Many in the industry see Digital Rights Management (DRM) as part of the industry’s future. For these DRM advocates, Sony-BMG’s misadventures with CD copy protection are a cautionary example of the downside of DRM. Sony-BMG lost both money and customer goodwill, without preventing piracy. Will future DRM systems do better? Probably not; but some in the industry disagree.


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