From the presentations this week, I learned quite a few new stuffs. Here are two examples of them. Keysurvey: Online survey software for easy and robust data collection. It provides survey tools and offers enterprise and private label solutions. Digital rights management(DRM): an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices.
Relevant Article:
The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music
The variety of options for purchasing music online is increasing. However, thicket of confusing usage restrictions is also growing. This is what the author of this article talks about. Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) to protect copy rights, preventing customers from doing things like using the portable player of their choice or creating remixes. In other words, "in this brand new world of 'authorized music services', law-abiding music fans often get less for their money than they did in the old world of CDs". The article "translates" the marketing messages by the major services, giving the real deal rather than spin. It is very helpful and we should be sure to understand how the service might limit the ability to make lawful use of the music we purchase before buying DRM-crippled music from any service.
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