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

[Scott A Crosby <crosby(at)qwes.math.cmu.edu>]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Kurt Hockenbury wrote:

>    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.
>

Ah, after doing some slight substitution to describe whats actually going
on, I'd read this as:


    Ramos then talked more generally about Microsoft's plans for digital
    control technology, saying "anything that's digital we'll be able to
    apply control 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 control." These, he said, could move the concept of buy-once
    use to time-based use -- "you can make it so the user can, say,
    only read this book on Tuesday" -- or location-based use.
                      -- My variant, *NOT* a quote.

Scott




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