Microsoft details new rights management tech
Lately I've been looking into digital rights management and technologies that can help support paid content. I picked up this piece about forthcoming technology from Microsoft on this front, and was happy to learn about a new emerging standard, XrML, the extensible rights markup language. Microsoft is a investor in the founding company behind this specification ( ContentGuard, a Xerox PARC spin-out).
I really like the approach taken with XrML. It's flexible and extensible enough to work with a very wide variety of content types, access and distribution models, encryption schems, and vendors. If major content formats like Windows Media, Office, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, XHTML, MPEG, and others support this we could finally have the basis for secure, paid content.
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