[Politech] Microsoft offers . This posting from Tim Bishop to Declan McCullagh’s excellent mailing list Politech includes an excerpt from an article in New Scientist
Microsoft offers ‘self destructing’ documents by Will Knight. 21 October 03.
Bishop comments:

“While I suspect that people will quickly figure out how to break this first
generation DRM with the equivalent of a magic marker or using the shift
key, and of course the expired documents will still be on the (Windows)
server, this is probably a pretty good indicator of where governments and
corporations are headed…”

And so, yet another reason for libraries to be selecting and acquiring and preserving government information, rather than hoping governments will do it for us.

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