The bottom line on digital-rights management, or DRM, is that it dictates what people can do with the music they share, rent (via an online subscription service), or purchase. “Most countries have what is called a fair-use policy enshrined in their copyright law. It allows a reasonable number of copies to be made for your personal use,” the BBC explains. What’s different now, with DRM, is that the *music companies* decide what you can do with a song. In fact, the new MTVu.com targeting university students doesn’t provide music videos to Mac users because their computers can’t access Windows DRM (see MTVu.com’s FAQ
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