Questions tagged [drm]

Digital rights management refers to technical means by which a copyright holder controls access to a copyrighted work.

Digital rights management (DRM) refers to technical means by which a copyright holder controls access to a copyrighted work. Questions about circumventing DRM for a legitimate purpose are permitted (although discouraged), but any questions that clearly involve illegal activities will be closed as off topic. For more information on DRM, see the Wikipedia article.

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How can I explain why DRM cannot work?

I am looking for the shortest comprehensive way to explain to people that are trying to use DRM as a technology to prevent users from using their data in some fashion deemed undesirable, why their solution cannot work by definition. Ideally I'd like…
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Difference between Content Protection and DRM

In this recent post about criticism regarding built-in DRM in Intels SandyBridge processors, Intel denies that there's any DRM in Sandybridge processors but goes on to say that Intel created Intel insider, an extra layer of content protection.…
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Scribd Membership - ebook reader [epubs] DRM Vanishing Text Not able to Copy Paste

I tried holding ctrlA then holding click up or down the page with also the arrow key as well. It seems to be able to take the pages highlighted but when i am reaching the end of the ebook i press while holding ctrlC to copy then i tried pasting to…
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