Consumer Electronics Terms

ClearlyExplained.Com Glossary

ClearlyExplained.Com


DRM - Digital Rights ( restriction) Management

A system used to restrict, control or manage the duplication of digital media.

Typically this is applied to protected music files such as MP3s. Often it requires the user's computer to be authorised to play the tracks or view copyrighted materials.

 

Related Links

Apple DRM

DRM- Wikipedia

back to glossary index

DRM can also be applied to e-books to avoid them being duplicated and passed on to others with out paying for the file.


©2004 R.Conan-Davies ClearlyExplained.Com