Media companies are beginning to hear the anti-DRM message and are responding to the growing consumer backlash by reassessing plans for locking down content, or like EMI by dropping DRM entirely from most product offerings. Not so Adobe Systems. The giant software vendor is attempting to create nothing short of a content control penal colony wherein documents are prepared, consumed and
persistently restricted.
That success requires fundamental changes in PC platform architecture right down to the chip level makes the sheer scope of their ambition nothing short of alarming.
For a detailed overview of where they are and perhaps more ominously, where they’re heading, listen to this
in-depth webcast with Adobe’s senior technical "evangelist" Duane Nickull.
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