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Big media players are accustomed to watching the ratings for the most popular music, video and book content. But perhaps they should pay more attention to how consumers feel about three letters at the bottom of most charts--DRM, which stands for digital rights management.Broadly defined, DRM encompasses multiple technologies that control the use of software, music, movies or any other piece of digital content. These technologies typically prevent consumers from moving content around to multiple devices and limit how the content can be used. special reportSony's rootkit fiasco Storm over label's antipiracy software raises questions about who owns the desktop....

   Texas Sues Sony Over Alleged CD Spyware --  Here is the description by the guy who discovered it: http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html along with a ton of commentary. --it's not just Sony - they just happened to be caught.  Just remember - many movie and music companies are not happy that you can burn CDs and send files over the internet, regardless of what you were going to burn or send - they would rather you not have the ability at all, end of story. In Canada they had resorted to getting a tax in place on recordable media and players,  Depends...