In the term "Digital Rights Management", the "Rights" refer to the rights of the copyright owner, not the rights of a consumer licensee. It's a lot like "Trust

In the term "Digital Rights Management", the "Rights" refer to the rights of the copyright owner, not the rights of a consumer licensee. It's a lot like "Trusted Computing"- a surface reading might suggest it means the computer is "trustworthy" or dependable to the user, while it actually refers to a "Trusted System" in a security engineering sense.