Five hundred years after Gutenberg's press enabled society to print and disseminate documents, Microsoft may have found a way to stop all that sharing. Yesterday the company unveiled Windows Rights Management Services, a set of technologies that will enable companies and governments to control who sees their documents and e-mail. If the software becomes widely used, as some predict, it will enable publishers, governments and corporations to place strict controls on all sorts of documents and media created and displayed on computers.
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