?nd out more about DRM
DRM
& YOUR MUSIC
Imagine you can't play your newly acquired Album of your favourite artiste on your Mobile phone/ Mobile devices because you had earlier played it in your car stereo and has such the CD is only licensed to your car stereo. What will you do? It sounds like a sore tale/ Impossibility because we are used to taking our music with us and naturally most consumers like you will conclude that the CD is defective and may likely buy a couple of other CD's before discovering the trend. As distant as it looks from us, the reality is this technology exists and has been used in other parts of the world particularly for digital music sales. As we experience the advantages of a borderless economy, which enables us, buy music from any part of the world in just a click. We need to be aware of certain restrictions that may be placed on us by terms and conditions guiding the usage of these materials, which we hardly read. Digital Rights management is a technology that limits your use of digital media purchased by you. it restricts the way you access, store, share and view digital contents. This is applicable to music, movies, e-books, software's and even physical storage for this media which is not limited to cds, dvds, blu ray discs and even ?ash drives but also Memory cards and related storage devices.
DRM gives authority to producers of contents to regulate/ restrict your usage of materials bought from them from the basic form of ensuring the number of times you can access the material, to selecting the platforms/ software's/ hardware's you can use to access the materials to ensuring that you can't store/ back up the material in any other device/ format that suits your usage. While major contents producers explain that this will curtail the endemic disease called piracy and bring about greater returns to content producers, the biggest concern about DRM is the invasion of privacy caused by the software which ensures that the terms and conditions associated with the usage of the material is adhered to. The software is capable of giving reports concerning usage of materials to the producers most times when used with an internet enabled device and this may also be used to obtain information illegally from ones devices since this technology is ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Q????????????I4??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????I4?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Q??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????((