Computer Might Makes Digital Right?

摘要

As content management systems add functionality to serve the enterprise, one of the more important capabilities is digital rights management (DRM). For Web publishers with large content databases, how and whether they restrict access may be a life-or-death decision. If a company charges for content, its revenue stream is threatened by anyone duplicating its information. If, however, direct sale of content is a small fraction of a company's overall income, an enterprise may want to provide open access to that content as a way to enhance its other income-producing services. But as we'll see, firms shouldn't equate open access with the public domain and a loss of control over content. For major content producers—like publishers of books, magazines, newspapers, and academic journals; radio and television broadcasters; and Hollywood, of course—the last few years have been a wild and daring ride on the back of the Internet tiger. Converting assets to digital form for Web distribution has almost served as an invitation for crackers from around the world to steal more media.