DRM in the news....

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DRM seems to be very well supported...

http://www.knowledgestorm.com/search/keyword/digital%20rights%20management%20software/ksf/digital%20rights%20management%20software/



    "InterTrust also has one other asset of note: a suit against Microsoft that 
    appears to be the highest-stakes patent litigation in history. The suit's 
    charges give a good feel for the scope and breadth of InterTrust's patents, 
    at least as InterTrust sees it. The company says its patents are being 
    infringed every time Microsoft ships its Windows XP operating system; 
    Office XP suite; Word 2002 word processor; Excel 2002 spreadsheet; Outlook 
    2002 e-mail client; PowerPoint 2002 slide presentation software; Windows 
    Media Player; Xbox videogame console; Microsoft software for servers, 
    mobile phones, pocket computers, and consumer electronics devices; and many 
    of the components and tool kits that Microsoft now markets in connection 
    with its most cutting-edge "bet the company" initiative: the networked 
    computing and web-services platform known as .NET. 

    Understand what that means: InterTrust is seeking an injunction barring 
    distribution of about 85% of Microsoft's product line. (Though the DRM and 
    trusted systems technologies form only a piece of each product, they have 
    been, in Microsoft's trademark fashion, tightly integrated into these 
    larger programs.) 

    InterTrust seeks damages too--which could be trebled if Microsoft were 
    shown to have acted willfully. Polaroid's spectacular 1976 patent suit 
    against Kodak--which eventually forced Kodak to scrap its $2 billion foray 
    into instant photography and pay $900 million in damages--is dwarfed by the 
    scope of the InterTrust-Microsoft litigation. "

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,400412,00.html?






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