The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

Had the CBDTPA become law, it would have prohibited technology that read digital content ( such as music, video, and e-books ) without Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) that prevented access to this material without the permission of the copyright holder.

Rather than allow people to strip the DRM, DoubleTwist would license the ability to apply FairPlay to media companies who wanted their music and videos to play on the iPod, without having to sign a distribution contract with Apple .< ref >

In March 2011, HarperCollins announced it would distribute eBooks to libraries with DRM enabled to delete the item after being lent 26 times.

A 100 kHz DRM + channel has sufficient capacity to carry one low-definition 0. 7 megabit / s wide mobile TV channel: it would be feasible to distribute mobile TV over DRM + rather than DMB or DVB-H.

It was mistakenly predicted that DRM features would be widely used due to pressure from music and other media suppliers to prevent piracy.

His company, doubleTwist, would license the technology to media companies who wished to have their media playable on the iPod or Apple TV, with the protection of FairPlay DRM, but without having to go through Apple.

In February 2010, review versions of Assassin's Creed II and Settlers 7 for PC contained this new DRM scheme, confirming that it is already in use, and that instead of pausing the game, it would discard all progress since the last checkpoint or save game.

In August 2011, Ubisoft released From Dust with DRM protection, contrary to previous statements that the game would not have any DRM related restrictions.

The FCC's Broadcast flag regulations, which were struck down by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, would have required DRM technologies on all digital outputs from HDTV signal demodulators.

First the old transmitter was replaced by a new, fully transistorized transmitter, which would be also able to operate in DRM mode.

When this functionality was brought to SunnComm's attention, the Company resolved the problem by issuing an update that insured that its DRM would never be installed on a user's computer should the EULA be subsequently declined by that user.

In April 2008, Microsoft announced that the DRM servers for MSN Music would be deactivated on 2008-08-31.

( DRM, because of its proprietary, system-specific nature, would be destructive to the general openness and system independence of podcasts.

Windows Media DRM, which can be used in conjunction with WMA, supports time-limited music subscription services such as those offered by unlimited download services, including MTV's URGE, Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo!

Audio can be ripped using error correction and ripped audio can be protected with Windows Media DRM.

Under this scenario, once data is sent to someone else's computer, whether it be a diary, a DRM music file, or a joint project, that other person controls what security, if any, their computer will enforce on their copy of those data.

By utilizing the attestation, curtained memory and cryptographic features of the TPM, a secure form of Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) may be developed ; critics charge that although it does not provide DRM features itself, DRM is nevertheless the primary motivation for the development of NGSCB.

Legacy tracks with FairPlay DRM will still be available for $ 0. 99 /€ 0. 99 /£ 0. 79 – albeit with lower quality sound and DRM restrictions still in place.

Albums are also available at the same price as their lower quality, DRM counterparts and music videos from EMI will also be DRM-free.

Often, such licenses are enforced by implementing in the software a product activation or digital rights management ( DRM ) mechanism seeking to prevent unauthorized use of the software by issuing a code sequence that must be entered into the application when prompted or stored in its configuration.

Windows Media DRM, which can be used in conjunction with WMV, supports time-limited subscription video services such as those offered by CinemaNow.

The DRM + standard provides bandwidths from between 35 kbit / s to 185 kbit / s and up to four simultaneous data streams, allowing near-CD quality audio to be broadcast alongside other multimedia content-images, video or HTML content are typical examples.

The United States Federal Communications Commission states in that: " For digitally modulated emissions, the Digital Radio Mondiale ( DRM ) standard shall be employed.

DRM + will be the name of this technology.

DRM Plus is now successfully tested in Band III, and this gives the DRM system the widest frequency usage ; it can be used in band I, II and III.

2011 the paneuropean organisation Community Media Forum Europe has recommended to the European Commission that DRM + should rather be used for small scale broadcasting ( local radio, community radio ) than DAB / DAB +.

DRM broadcasting can be done using a choice of different bandwidths:

This bandwidth can be used in band I, II, and III and DRM + can transmit four different programs in this bandwidth.

Although Apple had implemented a Trusted Computing DRM scheme in the transition hardware and OS in an attempt to stop people installing Tiger x86 on non-Apple PCs, the OSx86 project soon managed to remove this restriction.

DRM is implemented using both Java and a pluggable decryption card.

OMA DRM 1. 0 has been implemented in over 550 models of mobile phone.

Most of the ringtones pre-installed on mobile phones have implemented DRM.

The record industry does not mandate that DRM be implemented on ringtones, unlike most digital music stores.

The Microsoft Zune media management software supports most WMA codecs, but uses a variation of Windows Media DRM which is used by PlaysForSure.

* Editor's columns of JBU —" Salvos Against Big Brother " and " The Editor's Page "; " Salvos " are similar essays by editor Flint specifically focused on DRM and Baen's electronic publishing policies.

* DisplayPort ( a license-free standard proposed by VESA to succeed DVI that has DRM capabilities ) / Mini DisplayPort / Thunderbolt

The Digital Radio Mondiale ( DRM ) IBOC system has been approved by the ITU for use outside North America and U. S. territories.

In November 2003, Johansen released QTFairUse, an open source program which dumps the raw output of a QuickTime Advanced Audio Coding ( AAC ) stream to a file, which could bypass the Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) software used to encrypt content of music from media such as those distributed by the iTunes Music Store, Apple Computer's online music store.

") illegally copied from an iTunes DRM circumvention program by Jon Lech Johansen.

Results of the individual samples are analyzed by removing the natural remanent magnetization ( NRM ) to reveal the DRM.

Difference-based detection was used by Russinovich's RootkitRevealer tool to find the Sony DRM rootkit.

Morphy Richards is mass producing DRM receivers, which are being promoted by the broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Chengdu NewStar Electronics is offering the DR111 from May 2012 on which meets the minimum requirements for DRM receivers specified by the DRM consortium and is sold worldwide.

On 31 August 2009, DRM + ( Mode E ) has become an official broadcasting standard with the publication of the technical specification by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ; this is effectively a new release of the whole DRM spec with the additional mode permitting operation above 30 MHz up to 174 MHz.

Gives the ability for the broadcaster to do a simulcast and use the lower-sideband area of a full 9 kHz channel for single sideband AM ( designated H3E by the ITU ), with a 4. 5 kHz DRM signal occupying the area traditionally taken by the upper-sideband.

Gives the ability for the broadcaster to do a simulcast and use the lower-sideband area of a full 10 kHz channel for H3E single sideband AM, with a 5 kHz DRM signal occupying the area traditionally taken by the upper-sideband.

It can run in simulcast mode by switching between DRM and AM, and it is also prepared for linking to other alternatives ( e. g., DAB or FM services ).

In 2012 there are four digital wireless radio systems recognized by the International Telecommunications Union: the two European systems DAB digital audio broadcasting system, and DRM ( Digital Radio Mondiale ), the Japanese ISDB-T and the U. S. HD-Radio ( IBOC ).

As of February 20, 2007, Puretracks is offering the majority of its collection in MP3 format without DRM, an approach advocated by theories such as the Open Music Model.

FairPlay is a digital rights management ( DRM ) technology created by Apple Inc., based on technology created by the company Veridisc.