Digital Rights Management Case Study

Digital Rights Management is something implemented by companies in order to solve a legitimate problem: Piracy and copyright infringement. This means of protection is used not only in the entertainment sector of the internet, but also other sectors such as research and development and even business. Albeit this means of solving said problem does have its benefits, people generally do not appreciate being told what they can and cannot do with the things they purchase thus leading to several conflicts.

1. Digital Rights Management

1.1 Impacts of DRM

1.1.1 Disability Law and Copyright

1.1.2 Inconvenience

1.1 Disability Law and Copyright

Copyright is the method used in order to protect published resources, but as this copyright gets more and more complicated, the disabled become more and more affected. As one person purchases a good, they are merely purchasing the right to use said good and not really own it per se. Some users cannot experience the same quality of use as others because of disabilities they might be harbouring. George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman note that although every person who avails of a good has the right to

Some argue that DRM only makes data more difficult to crack and access and does not really eliminate a resource’s accessibility, some argue that DRM subsequently prevents the use of legal practices while some argue that not all media devices will be able to handle resources governed by DRM. Paul Petrick, founder and co-owner of Headtunes Recordings, had even stated how it might be time to perhaps look for another viable solution to our problems with privacy and copyright infringement. There are three means of implementing Digital Rights Management; these means include a system where a computer code is used, a system where an external human decision maker is used and a third system where both a computer and an external decision maker are