Digital Rights Manangement (DRM)

Digital Rights Management or DRM is the catch-all phrase that refers to any technology that enforces pre-defined policies for controlling access to games, music, movies, ringtones or other digital data and hardware. In more technical terms, DRM handles the description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading and monitoring of the rights held over a digital work. DRM critics say “digital restrictions management” is a better descriptor for such technologies, because they argue such technologies decrease the value of the content because they usually restrict it to one platform or limit the usage in terms of number of views or replays.