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Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11
conaone writes "According to a Microsoft Watch, there is a feature in the leaked Office 2003 called "Information Rights Management." A lot more control over documents with this... the story says: "Microsoft is threading DRM throughout the Office 2003 suite, allowing restrictions to be set on Outlook mail messages, as well as on Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Using "permission templates," document authors can determine restriction policies to be applied to entire categories of documents, according to Microsoft's site." Here's a link to the whole story."
This seems to be the thinking here. There's no need to trust your employees, you can just force them to work the way you want them to.
And while the business is not trusting its employees, it is telling the public "trust us, we aren't polluting/bribing/defrauding."
I sense a disconnect in this process somewhere...
I agree that there is a business use to this... it allows a business to hire scummy people that are willing to defraud the public, without worrying that they might defraud the business.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is... Oops. Frank, I've got your sig again! Where's mine?
Microsoft is pushing all of this on purpose to turn the entire free world into slavery! Why, just the other day I bought a piece of software from what I thought was a reputable vendor. I installed it on the computer I downloaded it with after buying the damn thing, to make sure the download worked properly before accepting something defective. When I tried to install it on the computer the software is intended for, which does not have an internet connection for security purposes, it wouldn't work because of this stupid DRM shit. Microsoft is trying to push this shit down our throats so we must revolt! I think everyone in the world should show up all at once at Microsoft headquarters with pitchforks and torches (but not do anything illegal with them, of course).
the name of this feature is Rights Management Service - RMS! I wouldn't want to be Microsoft right now; that's crossing the line.
What's crossing the line? Naming something repugnant after RMS? Have you ever met the man? If so, then you might not be so up-in-arms about it - he's a disgusting slob.