Another nail in the DRM coffin

By Oren Sreebny on May 24, 2007 12:32 PM | | Comments (0)

Way to go, MIT!

Following opposition by MIT, the Society of Automotive Engineers halted implementation of digital rights management controls aimed at restricting access to SAE documents. On April 19, SAE issued a press release stating that they would not enable DRM controls "on the Society's Digital Library of technical papers for licenses at colleges, universities, and other academic institutions."

Full story at:

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N26/drm.html

Thanks to Paul Hill for pointing this out!

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