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How prominent was the phrase 'digital rights management' when Linux's direct rendering manager was created (Wikipedia says 1999)? The FSF's 'Defective by Design
by pxc 3y ago
How prominent was the phrase 'digital rights management' when Linux's direct rendering manager was created (Wikipedia says 1999)? The FSF's 'Defective by Design' anti-DRM campaign didn't start until 2006.
- bcx5k15 3y agonot at all, I recall that no one (outside of the music industry perhaps) used the phrase 'digital rights management' until iTunes added DRM to music in 2003/2004, other things like the copy protection for videotapes/DVDs/games were just generically called copyprotection, or other domain specific terms such as activation (in the case of things like windows XP), not DRM.