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What Every Citizen Should Know About DRM,a.k.a. “Digital Rights Management”By Mike GodwinSenior Technology CounselPublic KnowledgeNEW AMERICAF O U N D A T I O NWashington, DC
AcknowledgementsThis “DRM primer” would not have come about without the author’s having worked withan informal “Risks of Copy Protection” expert group that includes Ed Felten, Matt Blaze,Phil Karn, Steve Bellovin, Bruce Schneier, Alan Davidson, John Morris, Hal Abelson, andBill Cheswick. Two members of the group — Ed Felten and Matt Blaze — deserve specialthanks for framing a number of copy-protection technology issues with such clarity that Ihave to some extent reproduced that clarity here. Phil Karn similarly deserves special thanksfor his discussion of the extent to which peer-to-peer file-sharing is a feature of the Internet’sfundamental design. Andy Moss and Aaron Burstein each made a wide range of helpfulcomments and observations on earlier drafts of this primer.I’m particularly grateful to my boss, Gigi Sohn, for giving me the opportunity to explorethe landscape of digital rights management and to develop further some of my ideas aboutthe directions in which DRM may take us. I’m also thankful for the support and feedback ofmy other fellow staff members at Public Knowledge — Sarah Brown, Alex Curtis, Ann Deville,and Nathan Mitchler. I consider myself fortunate to be backed by such a knowledgeableand resourceful team; each of my colleagues contributed in many ways to the developmentof this project, and all of them read this paper in various stages of development and offeredhelpful corrections and suggestions.Any mistakes, however, remain my own, as do my reasoning and conclusions; my colleaguesand friends should not be blamed for any wrong turns I have made.
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