MS Patent for DRM OS

Casper Dik Casper.Dik at Sun.COM
Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:34:02 +0100


>So the things they should have been doing years ago to protect our data
>and security, they'll do now to protect RIAA's copyrights....


Looks like this is just Mandatory Access Control under
a different name and with a very limited scope (two labels).

The difference being that with MAC the administrators wants
the labels to be enforced; with DRM OS, the adminstrator is
not necessarily so inclined.

Casper