Digital Rights Management

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Digital Rights Management

   <legal> (DRM) Any technology used to limit the use of
   {software}, music, movies or other digital data.  This
   generally relies on some interaction between the media and the
   system that plays it.  For example, video {DVDs} usually
   include a {region code}.  If this does not match the player's
   region code, the player will refuse to play the disc.

   (2006-02-02)