digital restrictions management

Why 2024 will be like 1984

iPod+iTunes+DRM

I bet the pic caught your attention! It's very controversial indeed! With the imminent infiltration of technology into everyone's everyday lives, the entertainment and media industries came up with an answer to the problem of piracy called digital rights management. Sounds OK at the first glance... the only problem is, the only rights protected (or managed) are theirs, not yours. You, the end user, have virtually no rights (including the ones you enjoyed previously, like the ability to tape a TV show legally).