Microsoft Rights Management Services
Microsoft announced its Rights Management Server (or Rights Management Services, which is the platform the Rights Management Server is part of) last week, two days after telling us about it in a conference call. I'm writing something up about this, which I'll publish at my EFF site shortly (and link to from here).
Everyone is finding it amusing, or peculiar, that Microsoft now has a DRM product called RMS. While the capabilities and architecture of Microsoft RMS aren't precisely the same as Richard's depiction, there is some overlap with the functionality of the system described in Richard's 1997 science fiction story about digital rights management, published before the concept was widely known or widely implemented. (I think the story is better without the "Author's Note", but maybe that's just because I'm following DRM pretty closely. That story might be part of the inspiration for Kathryn Myronuk's clever slogan "Reading is a right, not a feature", which I've been quoting in e-mail since a little after Dmitry was arrested.)
