Re: What Microsoft wants for your future

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 10:44:22 MST

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    BillK wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >RMS (which works with Windows Server 2003) issues a license certificate
    >containing access permissions when a document is created. So, in the
    >case of a Word document created in Office 2003, the person creating it
    >would use the "permission" button to set or restrict access. The process
    >accesses RMS, which encrypts the file and includes a license for
    >permissions.
    >In order to read an RMS protected document, the user has to access the
    >RMS server and get their license authenticated by the server.
    >...
    >
    >
    >BillK
    >...
    >
    The nifty thing is that since this is a device to control access, the
    DMCA would make illegal for people to build a device, say a competing
    word processor, that could read the same format. No just to use it on
    their own files, but even to design it. 

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