[dvd-discuss] Microsoft's digital rights keynote 'hexed'

[Kurt Hockenbury <khockenb(at)stevens-tech.edu>]

From
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2815186,00.html

   Ramos then talked more generally about Microsoft's plans for digital
   rights management, saying "anything that's digital we'll be able to
   apply rights to," whether it's with Reader's capabilities or the
   "genre-specific" ones planned for inclusion in Windows Media Player.

   "This will open a Pandora's box," he said, promoting the idea of
   "elaborate rights." These, he said, could move the concept of buy-once
   rights to time-based rights -- "you can make it so the user can, say,
   only read this book on Tuesday" -- or location-based rights.