The two companies said Monday they've signed a multiyear agreement for Disney to license Microsoft's Windows Media digital-rights-management technology, which protects digital content from being ...

If you need the "why" of tighter data-confidentiality protection, pick up a newspaper. When IT pros heard a laptop with personal information on millions of military personnel had been stolen, most ...

Protecting valuable information from misuse, theft or misappropriation is a minefield of conflicting opinions, expectations, laws and technologies. As new storage and distribution channels become ...

The European Union has issued a draft document on the implications of the spread of digital rights management, which is often used to protect copyrighted material such as software and music. The EU's ...

Whatever you think about Digital Rights Management software, it's hard to argue with the fact that it's annoying. Such technology exists, in theory, to protect the intellectual property of the ...