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Microsoft's Digital Rights Management Plan

On February 21, Microsoft announced the Windows Rights Management Services For Windows Server 2003. The company also released a white paper, Microsoft Rights Management Solutions for the Enterprise: Persistent Policy Expression and Enforcement for Digital Information, that details new digitial rights management applications for the Windows OS. According to Microsoft, they have “combined and extended rights management technologies developed for use with music, eBooks, and videos to help safeguard enterprise information.”
The Herald reports that implementation of the Windows Rights Management Services will raise the level of corporate monitoring of computer generated documents, and have a significant impact on how internal corporate documents and e-mails are used, disseminated, stored and purged. The software can “restrict who may view, copy or forward e-mails or sensitive information” and “can automatically delete files after they reach a certain expiration date.”
See also CNet’s article, Microsoft expands rights management tool, which highlights how a range of rights to documents within an organization can be established and closely regulated according to specific users, so as to ensure confidentiality and security.

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