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Should references to digital rights management be replaced with the more accurate term digital restriction management?
Calling DRM digital rights management implies that you may gain some rights with DRM however DRM only takes away rights and imposes restriction on the user. Note that some companies will argue that those restrictions may be needed. Notice how the last sentence was unbiased but yet still used the word 'restriction' instead of 'rights'. This is an issue about accuracy not biasing. — Preceding
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04:17, 27 June 2013 (UTC)reply
That's why the article uses "digital rights management". The article should and does mention issues with DRM, but the article isn't going to ignore reliable sources and and create a new name for the subject just because we feel that the name doesn't fit our viewpoint. Take the
Stop Online Piracy Act article for example. It is called that because that's what its name is and what reliable sources use, not because Wikipedia feels that the name is an accurate descriptor. Like that article, digital rights management is a name, not a descriptor. That we don't feel that the name is a good descriptor does not mean we can create our own name for the subject. -
SudoGhost20:40, 27 June 2013 (UTC)reply
This is just not a good argument (w/SOPA), I checked out
Obamacare that is a redirect, and it is in bold in the very first sentence. Yes, the official name is first. The difference is that acts of congress actually have an official name. DRM seems to be the common name by now, and those who proposed it do not have a monopoly on how an idea/word is used or if the word changes over time. DRM is not an implementation, it's an abstract idea, with (necessarily) mutually incompatible implementations. For those (their names), your argument applies.
comp.arch (
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11:34, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
You keep repeating this falsehood that digital rights management is some abstraction. AGAIN, there are SCORES of patents that use digital rights management in their text implementing digital rights management technology. Abstract means something exists only as a thought or idea, but is not concrete. Do you actually believe all these patents and implementations aren't real? If they aren't, what's the big fuss?
Objective3000 (
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12:33, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Patents are on devices, or the controversial
software patents (so-called, "idea patents", because software (and math) always abstract/ideas, and code their implementation). Only devices (matter, and e.g. living things) are actual, everything else is an abstraction/idea. Software has always been abstract (CD ROM are not, but that is only a medium for software). Anyway, not all DRM uses hardware, just makes harder to break, and DRM doesn't strictly depend on patents.
comp.arch (
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14:35, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The EU doesn't agree with the US Patent Office's view that software can be patented, but that's always been a messy topic, especially for the free software space in the context of patented video codecs. I think the article can be changed so that it mentions the alternative name "digital restrictions management," but not rename the entire article to that name.
Computer software is abstract because it is, in essence, nothing more than a set of mathematical algorithms, expressed in a particular programming or machine language. An algorithm is a mathematical construct, consisting of a series of steps for solving a problem.
Don't be silly, do you want to contradict major computer scientists on software (and also their stand on
software patents in the brief above?). Introduction - School of Computing and Engineering: "Intangibility. Software is intangible [..] Software is abstract".
[1] James Moor's "Three Myths of Computer Science" (1978) points out the inadequacies of the usual "abstract" software vs. "concrete" hardware distinction
[2] "Software is abstract" S. Rosenberg (in "Dreaming in Code", pp 58)
[3]
Even if I (and they) are mistaken on patents it is not important. Let's just leave patents aside(?) as this article isn't about patents, but DRM. Anyway, the only thing about patents I could find in the article: "They excluded patent rights from the range of the directive"
comp.arch (
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16:07, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
You're responding to a three year old edit. In any case, we'll see when someone brings this up for the 200th time. I'll likely respond in the same manner.
O3000 (
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14:14, 30 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Ok, so the proponents use that term. That is only what that means, it's not the patent jobs job to censor or have an opinion on these terms I think. Maybe, but probably not(?) they have a category for DRM. If we would use the patent office, as a dictionary, we would not say "airplace" or "aeroplane", but rather "flying machines": "they were granted U.S. Patent 821,393[6] for a "Flying Machine" "?
comp.arch (
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16:52, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Have you ever received a patent? It is absolutely the job of the patent office to go over an application with a fine-toothed comb. You cannot make false claims in a patent. And, I said nothing about using patents as a dictionary. What I am saying, for the tenth time, is that "digital rights management" is the term used by the people that develop the technology, as shown by all of the patents. "Digital restrictions management" is not in any patent that I can find. Digital rights management is what DRM stands for.
Objective3000 (
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17:19, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
And I'm saying the proponents/developers do not chose what term,
WP:COMMONNAME, that is applied to it. Most who discuss DRM outside of patent applications, and some technical documentation, not only opponents, just say DRM, or "DRM-free", "anti-DRM". Most opponents of course do not want to say "digital rights management", avoiding validating that term. They don't always spell out as, DRM is just as known as say DVD. The difference is that DVD is a standard, DRM are many implementations with many different names. Those you'll never see in patent applications, but are very much also talked about — when not talking about the general idea or technology if you will.
comp.arch (
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18:20, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The name is what it is. Wikipedia has an article titled “Patriot Act” even though many, if not most, people believe that it is the antithesis of patriotism. There are vast numbers of such examples. But, that is the name. Wikipedia does not get to rewrite history in its image. An encyclopedia reports, it doesn’t evaluate or opine.
74.108.115.191 (
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00:30, 28 June 2013 (UTC)reply
The name "Digital Rights Management" is a name which, if you read the words in context, implies a system which manages rights on a digital platform (or something else "digital"). The name does not suggest that it will grant you rights beyond what you are granted without the system. While I my opinion is that replacing "rights" with "restrictions" would be beneficial to the debate about DRM (since it more clearly describes what is happening), I cannot defend doing so in the context of wikipedia -- at least not untill DRM has shifted into being a short for "Digital Restrictions Management". As long as a proper description of DRM is presented, I'm quite happy. — Preceding
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80.167.145.44 (
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12:37, 11 December 2013 (UTC)reply
The term was coined in a certain wording, but now has a cultural shift that surrounds it which contextualizes it differently. That different contextualization is relevant and becoming widely used by opponents...and there is nothing wrong with mentioning both. Wikipedia's job is to present a relevant, factual, and accurately sourced overview of a topic. I do not think a 3-paragraph-introduction about DRM would be complete without mentioning that one of the most notable things about it is the opposition to its premise. If that opposition has co-opted the terminology to push strongly enough to want to reword it, then mentioning that is important also. But as others have mentioned: you don't get to rewrite history in the process of providing context. It should be clearly visible that the people who pushed DRM called it "Digital Rights Management" when it was being promoted. Any other name must be mentioned as coming after-the-fact.
Metaeducation (
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03:30, 19 June 2014 (UTC)reply
I've taken the "just the facts, M'am" approach to this, thus Digital Restrictions Management no longer redirects to this page. That term is its own beast, created by an entirely different party from those who coined Digital Rights Management, has its own history, and belongs in its own disambiguation entry for DRM. This page belongs to the original artifact and should only link to the existence of the alternative interpretation. Deal?
Metaeducation (
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04:09, 19 June 2014 (UTC)reply
In light of
WP:COMMONNAME, I don't see that there's a case for replacing the term "digital rights management" with "digital restrictions management" in this article. However, web and literature searches suggest that the latter term is used often enough in journalistic and scholarly literature (and moreover by individuals and organizations unconnected with Richard Stallman, the term's originator) to justify its inclusion in the lede. I have updated the article accordingly, and cited some of these sources in the section on opposition to DRM. I'd be happy to discuss whether any of these sources should be substituted; the ones I selected demonstrate the term's actual use, though it's easy to find secondary sources which attest to the term's currency among DRM critics. —
Psychonaut (
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11:50, 20 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The sources you added are very much the exception, one of which wasn't even in English and so does not indicate usage in the English language, and these sources do not demonstrate common usage to the point that it warrants mentioning it in the lede as if it is a commonly used alternative name for the subject, per
WP:VALID. It is a term that has prominence in regards to the subject of
Defective by Design, as most sources that mention that topic use this term, but in regards to this topic, that of DRM, it is very much a minority term used so seldom that if it even warrants a mention, it is little more than a brief sentence in the article, as that is proportional to what reliable sources show. It does not, however, need to be presented in the lede as a commonly used alternative name when it is not, when reliable sources do not support that kind of prominence in the article. -
Aoidh (
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16:15, 20 August 2015 (UTC)reply
What we have here is simply one person's opinion against another's: I say that the term "digital restrictions management", while admittedly less common, is still sufficiently widespread to warrant a mention in the lede, whereas you say that it is not. Let me ask you this: generally speaking, what evidence would you consider sufficient to establish that any given alternate term is sufficiently prominent to be mentioned in the lede of an article? If it's a certain absolute number, or relative proportion, of uses in reliable sources, please state it, and we'll see whether it's reflected in the available literature in this case. (Though if that approach is too
OR for you, perhaps you would be satisfied with
secondary and tertiary sources which don't use the term itself, but rather attest that the term is in common use by other sources?) —
Psychonaut (
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09:51, 21 August 2015 (UTC)reply
I tell you what, you find twenty reliable sources in English that use the term "Digital Restrictions Management" in a way that's not associated with the FSF or the EFF, and uses the term in place of Digital Rights Management and not side-by-side, and I'll consider what you say to have some merit. Short of that, I think Wikipedia's policy on neutrality is very clear on this, given the thousands of reliable sources that can very easily be found that use the term "Digital Rights Management", if not even twenty could be found that use this other term, then it doesn't belong in the lede. -
Aoidh (
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01:02, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
About "thousands of reliable sources" vs. "not even twenty [for] the other term". I know google isn't everything and most of the sources are not "reliable", but see my most recent thread here, where I say: "Digital rights management" only the vastly fewer 962,000 articles. Yes, "Digital restrictions management" even fewer (than the alternative spelling): 33,400
33,400/20=1670. Are you saying unreliable sources of the alternative term outnumber the reliable 1670:1? The reliable ones only being 0,000598802% of the total? Because, DRM is an idea/concept, any of the spellings is real as a concept, just as, the concept "people". Implementations of DRMs, are, to name a few, Apples'
FairPlay, Microsoft's
PlayForSure,
OMA DRM,
SecuROM, etc. Those who made the first (or any) implementation do not have a monopoly on what to call some idea. See are allowed to call it just DRM, and list both meanings, starting with the "official" one.
comp.arch (
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11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Would you stop with the Google counts? They are meaningless. DRM is not simply an idea. It is a class of technologies with scores of patents. You have been asked for a reliable source. You gave none. You have been asked for a patent that uses restrictions instead of rights. You gave none. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Adding an alternative name pushed by a activist group is a violation of
WP:NPOV, and a rather serious one.
Objective3000 (
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11:29, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
I fully expected patenties (assumed proponents) to not use the "sarcastic", if you will, term. You've however been proven wrong, see: below is, however, a list of patents refering to that term (and the "official" one), seemingly agree that those two terms are synonyms (I only checked first two patents). You would only possibly be right, if "digital restrictions management" patents, where for something completely unrelated. Anyway, patents are
be-all and end-all, of what the right word for a concept is. Imagine there had never been ANY patent on this, you would still have implementations of DRM. And the patents are about specific(?) implementations of technology ("ideas"), not the general concept of DRM.
comp.arch (
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13:18, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
I looked at more than two. The titles and headers use the correct term. The text sometimes adds the sarcastic version as the "disparaging term used by opponents". Patents are written by lawyers to avoid loss of rights and they go out of their way to make certain all bases are covered. None of the patents refer to the sarcastic version as the real meaning behind DRM. You continue to try to push a POV into the lede.
Objective3000 (
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13:35, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
On "a violation of WP:NPOV, and a rather serious one", maybe if adding the term to the lead at the time the sarcastic, term came up. By now, in some form the "restricting" issue should be in the lead, as there was a huge backlash to DRM, and Apple a proponent, e.g. dropped DRM famously for music. "DRM-free", "anti-DRM" etc. are terms, probably agreeing with the sarcastic term (at least the latter). Nobody says "digital rights management"-free, if would feel odd, to be against rights.. With these terms as popular as they are now, emphasizing DRM (not spelled out) more, e.g. in the article's title seems to be in order. The tables seem to have turned, only having one of the spelled out variants in the lead seem now
WP:NPOV, as there are two opposing sides and WP should not be biased by only showing one.
comp.arch (
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13:29, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
OK
Aoidh, most or all of the 70-odd sources in the first list below should meet your criteria. These are apparently reliable sources which use the term "digital restrictions management" or "digital restriction management" exclusively, with no reference to "digital rights management". I've also included three separate lists: one for sources which acknowledge both "digital rights management" and "digital restriction(s) management" but express a preference for the latter, another for sources which acknowledge both terms without expressing a preference for either, and finally one for sources which acknowledge both sources but express a preference for the former. This last list is still relevant as it shows that even among those using the majority term, the minority term is considered sufficiently popular to mention when introducing or discussing the subject.
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Sources, apart from the EFF and FSF, which use the term "digital restriction(s) management" exclusively:
Lloyd Kaufman. Sell Your Own Damn Movie! Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2013.
ISBN978-0-240-81520-6.
Stephen J Davidson, Stuart D Levi, and Lawrence Rosen. Open Source Software 2007: Risks, Rewards and Practical Realities in the Corporate Environment. New York: Practising Law Institute, 2007.
ISBN978-1-4024-0972-1.
Stefan Krempl. "Wrapped up in Crypto Bottles." Telepolis, 9 March 2003. Heinz Heise Verlag. (An interview with EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow, though unlike Barlow the interviewer himself uses the term "digital restrictions management".)
Johan Söderberg. Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement. New York, NY: Routledge, 2012.
ISBN978-0-415-95543-0.
Edgar Holleis. "Smart Embedded Appliances Networks – Security Considerations". In Christoph Grimm, Peter Neumann, and Stefan Mahlknecht, eds. Embedded Systems for Smart Appliances and Energy Management, pp. 67–86. Heidelberg: Springer.
ISBN978-1-4419-8794-5.
Jean-Henry Morin. "Towards Socially-responsible Management of Personal Information in Social Networks". In John Breslin, Thomas N. Burg, Hong-Gee Kim, Tom Raftery, and Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, eds. Recent Trends and Developments in Social Software, vol. 6045 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 108–115. Berlin: Springer, 2010.
Jon Gorman. "A Systems Librarian's Cataloging Daydream". In Elaine R Sanchez, ed. Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century, pp. 74–94. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011.
ISBN978-1-59884-702-4.
Poul-Henning Kamp. "GBDE – GEOM Based Disk Encryption". In Proceedings of BSDCon '03.
USENIX Association, 2003.
Ralf Bendrath. "Global technology trends and national regulation: Explaining Variation in the Governance of Deep Packet Inspection". In Proceedings of the International Studies Annual Convention, 2009.
Anna Notaro. "The many futures of the book". Primerjalna Knjizevnost 35(1):213–229.
Anjanette H. Raymond. "Heavyweight Bots in the Clouds: The Wrong Incentives and Poorly Crafted Balances that Lead to the Blocking of Information Online". Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, 11(6):473–500, August 2013.
Frank Stajano. "Security in Pervasive Computing". In Dieter Hutter, Günter Müller, Werner Stephan, and Markus Ullmann, eds. Security in Pervasive Computing, vol. 2802 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer, 2004.
ISBN978-3-540-20887-7.
Pedro Rezende. "The Digital Stockholm Syndrome". In Proceedings of the Society and e-Government International Congress (CONSEGI 2008), 2008.
Hamid R. Jamali, David Nicholas, and Ian Rowlands. "Scholarly e‐books: the views of 16,000 academics: Results from the JISC National E‐Book Observatory". Aslib Proceedings, 2009. Emerald Insight. pp. 33–47.
Yee Wei Law, Cheun Ngen Chong, Sandro Etalle, Pieter Hartel, and Ricardo Corin. "Licensing Structured Data with Ease". In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods. Ilmenau: Technische Universität Ilmenau, 2004, pp. 113–124.
Sources which preferentially use the term "digital rights management", but which note that "digital restriction(s) management" is an alternative term:
Michael Brenner, Musa Unmehopa. The Open Mobile Alliance: Delivering Service Enablers for Next-Generation Applications. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
ISBN978-0-470-51918-9. pp. 289–290.
Dave Murray-Rust, Max Van Kleek, Laura Dragan, and Nigel Shadbolt. "Social Palimpsests – Clouding the Lens of the Personal Panopticon." In K. O’Hara, M-H.C. Nguyen, P. Haynes, eds. Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014: Social Networks and Social Machines, pp. 75–98. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2014.
ISBN978-1-61499-449-7.
Pamela Samuelson. "DRM {and, or, vs.} the Law". Communications of the ACM 46(4):41–45, April 2003.
Gregory L. Heileman, Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, and Joud Khoury. "Indirect DRM Evaluation Architecture". In Rüdiger Grimm, Berthold Hass, and Jürgen Nützel, eds. Virtual Goods: Technology, Economy, and Legal Aspects, pp. 31–49. Nova Science Publishers, 2008.
ISBN978-1604564860.
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar. A Framework for Usage Management. Ph.D. thesis, University of New Mexico, July 2011.
Gregory L. Heileman, Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, Joud Khoury, and Curtis J. Hrncir. "The DRM Game". In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Digital Rights Management, pp. 54–62. New York, NY: ACM, 2007.
ISBN978-1-59593-884-8.
Martin Schmucker. "Possibilities, Limitations, and the Future of Audiovisual Content Protection". In Kia Ng and Paolo Nesi, eds. Interactive Multimedia Music Technologies, pp. 283–324. New York, NY: Information Science Reference, 2007.
ISBN978-1-59904-150-6.
Cory Doctorow. "What happens with digital rights management in the real world?" The Guardian, 5 February 2014.
Miguel Soriano, Stephan Flake, Juergen Tacken, Frank Bormann, and Joan Tomàs. "Mobile Digital Rights Management: Security Requirements and Copy Detection Mechanisms". In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '05), pp. 251–256. IEEE, 2005.
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Randall Stross. "Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs". The New York Times, 14 January 2007.
Maria Savova and Matthew Garsia. "McGill Library Makes E-books Portable: E-reader Loan Service in a Canadian Academic Library". Libraries and the Academy 12(2):205–222. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Elizabeth Bowles and Eran Kahana. "The 'agreement' that sparked a storm". Business Law Today 16(3). American Bar Association, January/February 2007.
As you can see, I've tried to provide URLs of those sources available online; where I did not do this it was usually because I accessed the source through my institution's library and am not sure whether the link is accessible from outside it. (I've got local copies of many of the papers, so I can provide quotations if necessary.) I make no claim that any of these lists are exhaustive; on the contrary, I think they barely scratch the surface, but are probably good enough to establish the importance of our mentioning "digital restriction(s) management" early on in the article. —
Psychonaut (
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15:31, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
And all these opinion pieces trace back to one source. Type "Hillary is a lesbian" into Google and you will find massive articles on the subject. Doesn't mean it should be in an encyclopedia. Reliable sources, in the rare case they use the term, state that it is a term used by "some wags" or is incorrect. This article is about a technology. There are scores of related patents that use the words digital rights management. Are there any that use the term digital restrictions management?
Objective3000 (
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16:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
I would be careful with trusting what proponents say in patents, and accepted by the patent office, as some dictionary of good terms: US745264: "self-abuse or masturbation"
[4]comp.arch (
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18:04, 22 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Most of those sources are not opinion pieces (but even if they were, that doesn't refute the claim that the term is widespread). Whether or not all the articles using the term "digital restrictions management" trace back to one source is also irrelevant, because the same thing is true of the term "digital rights management": in both cases, someone was the first to coin the term, and everyone else followed. And in response to your query, yes, many patents do use the term "digital restrictions management". See for example US patents
9,031,982,
8,949,156,
8,826,459,
8,725,648,
8,553,882,
8,447,889,
7,725,614,
7,558,463, and
20070078773 A1 (pending). —
Psychonaut (
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08:28, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
No, "Digital Rights Management" is used by many companies, in numerous patents, in the mainstream press. "Digital Restrictions Management" is used in opinion pieces, mostly blogs and journals copying blogs, going back to one anti-DRM source. In the patents you provided, you will see sentences like "It is also, sometimes, disparagingly described as Digital Restrictions Management", or "Some opponents, such as the Free Software Foundation...." You will also see the term in italics. Basically, they are covering all bases (important in a patent should a suit occur) but indicating it is not the proper term, and you will notice they use digital rights management in headers before mentioning that some use the disparaging term. It is a sarcastic putdown, like Baba Wawa, or Faux News. Can you find a single company that uses or supplies DRM solutions that uses Restrictions in the name as opposed to Rights? I have found zero
Objective3000 (
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11:12, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Nobody disputes that the term "digital rights management" is used in reliable sources; the point of this discussion is only to determine whether the alternative term "digital restrictions management" is used often enough to merit a mention in the lede. Regarding the patents, yes, some of them use the alternative term only in reference to opposing views, though this still demonstrates that the authors considered this term important enough to mention. But in fact, most of the patents I listed above don't say that "digital restrictions management" is used only by the techonology's opponents. Rather, either they use the term "digital restrictions management" exclusively, or they simply state that "digital restrictions management" and "digital rights management" are synonyms. And yes, it's trivial to find developers of DRM technology which refer to it as "digital restrictions management"; just look at the assignees of the above-noted patents. Among those patents which don't list "digital restrictions management" as a term used only by critics, I see
Accenture,
Time Warner,
Microsoft. —
Psychonaut (
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12:56, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Why all this obsession with patents? The article name isn't
Digital rights management patents? DRM (and software, or hardware in general) is conceivable without patents. They are not the only possible
WP:RS. To be fair, you could also lock up media if there where no
copyright laws. Still saying "legal term from a Canadian legal source", like it is bad, implies DRM has noting to do with the law – copyright (part of ("
Intellectual property"-umbrella for laws). — Preceding
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The people who promote DRM refer to it as Digital Rights Management. However, its purpose is Digital Restriction. I think that to not move this to Digital Restrictions Management is a violation of NPOV. I strongly agree that the article should be retitled.
Harlequence (
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20:30, 9 January 2018 (UTC)reply
My take: both terms should be equally weighted in the introductory paragraph, in order to give equal weight to pro and anti-DRM groups. "Digital rights management" is nearly propaganda-like in name, but is the common name as well, so adding the (factually accurate) term "digital restrictions management" beside it, whilst keeping the article named as "digital rights m'gmt) would be a good way to give equal weight.
KevTYD (
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11:53, 2 January 2021 (UTC)reply
"Technological protection measures", my ass, what a load of marketological crap. Why are propagandist terms highlighted with bold in the first line of this encyclopedia, while the correct terms are not mentioned at all? Are corporations pushing for restriction management paying editors? How much?
109.68.115.196 (
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09:07, 9 April 2021 (UTC)reply
This is an article on DRM. A third image has been added. This makes three images, all of which are anti-DRM. This is an encyclopedia and must not push a
WP:POV.
Add information about Genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs)
Shouldn't
GURTs be discussed in the wider context of Digital Restrictions? I'm sure you can find literature talking about the two as part of the same phenomenon.
the previous text framed a sentiment about this topic in a way that suggests there is current controversy . I don't like DRM, but the vast majority of folks accept it on every video streaming service that exists. It may be true that it is not universally accepted, but those who oppose DRM in 2021 are the vast minority of consumers and stakeholders.
You are right, that the film and music industries seem to have converged on using DRM, although that still occasionally becomes an issue notable enough for mention here – lately, the Disney+ forbidding a lot of older devices (I'm not making any point from it, bear in mind).
The role of lead section is to summarize the article, and the article suggests in 3 wide sections (Opposition, Shortcomings and Alternative) that those issues are not yet resolved and there is no universal acceptance. You seem to agree that it is not universally accepted, yet removed the exact sentence from the article. I disagree that the critique of DRM schemes is fringe nowadays, and the article explains it well, even if it is a bit outdated.
I really want to stick to the word of the article exclusively (it should be changed and updated before the lead section) – although beyond that, there are organizations and companies in 2021 that make a point of not using DRM. DRM is still an issue in gaming (
GOG.com), book publishing (issues with school textbooks industry is pretty mainstream), and so on. —
K4rolB (
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12:23, 16 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Images
There are no images in support of DRM, but 2 images against it. Should there be images supporting DRM too to make the article have a neutral point of view?
Jan Gamecuber (
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16:48, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Length
I'm not an expert in this topics, but just from the outset, as a reader, the article is really confusing and excessively long. Perhaps someone more savvy in this topic can find a way to compress some of it for better readability? Just a suggestion.
M.Aurelius C. (
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14:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
DRM can limit the number of devices on which a legal user can install content. This restriction typically support 3-5 devices. This affects users who have more devices than the limit. Some allow one device to be replaced with another. Without this software and hardware upgrades may require an additional purchase.
This sentence is somewhat unclear. Should it be perhaps: "Without this, software and hardware upgrades may require an additional purchase."
But still, "this" refers to the whole previous sentence, which doesn't sound very clear. Proposal for new formulation: "Some allow a device to be replaced with a different one. Otherwise, software and hardware upgrades may require an additional purchase."