Researcher: DRM technology fails in practice

Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 2:46 AM EST

Digital rights management (DRM) technology has deep flaws despite the hope of content providers that encrypted files will deter illegal file sharing, a computer security researcher said Monday.

DRM is a catch-all term for a variety of methods used to limit content sharing. Techniques include digital encryption of songs and encoded limits on the number of times content can be accessed.

At InfoWorld.

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