Whatever happened to Microsoft's DRM plan?

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Wed, 06/25/2008 - 6:00am

Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

Academics warned it could "support remote censorship" and blacklists, likening Palladium to the Soviet Union's efforts ...



 

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