Populize rDRM

This is a quick shout out to populize the abbreviation rDRM as a successor to DRM. The lowercase r inserted in front of DRM stands for Restrictive. Making a much clearer name for the technology:

Restrictive Digital Rights Management

I belive keeping the added r in lowercase will help people understand the new abbreviation. Even when they do not know what the r stands for.

Tip: When used on the web, adding an HTML abb tag will aid users to understand the abbreviation. As used in this article (hover over dotted underlines).

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One comment

This is unnecessary. People already know it is restrictive.

You don't call Copyright "Restrictive Copyright", because you already know that the item in question already has restrictive use exactly because of the copyright.

You just want to emphasise that DRM is restrictive, to encourage companies and people who implement DRM to their works NOT to use DRM.

Comment by Magnus Damli at 2007-06-28 @516.