Digital Rights Management
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Digital Rights Management is a system for computers which stops people who have bought one copy from creating more copies. It is often applied to music and films.
Digital Rights Management is often shortened to DRM.
[edit] How it works
If someone creates or publishes something, he or she usually has a Copyright on the thing they invented. This means the authors of the work can say how their work should be copied. People usually buy copies from the author or publisher. Some people do not like Digital Rights Management. It takes away the ability to use parts of the work in a new creation, which they may be allowed to do. These people call this Digital Restrictions Management, because it restricts what they can do with the work.
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