Real DVD also installs a new layer of digital-rights-management (DRM) code on files, blocking users from copying them more than five times to other computers.

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All tracks will be DRM free, or without digital rights management, meaning users can move the files around between devices and convert them an unlimited number of times.

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So far, the major labels have been unwilling to let their music be distributed on podcasts, which don't have any kind of digital-rights management scheme that prevents users from redistributing the files.

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However, it was held on files in different departments leading to a failure in "knowledge management".

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Similarly irrelevant are the protective locks that recording companies put on files to try to stop pirates from copying and sharing them, so called digital rights management systems.

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More than that, the company agreed to keep its American port operations under management by American citizens "to the extent possible, " to open up its files on the "design, maintenance of the Companies' U.S. facilities, equipment or services, " and to give the government "any relevant records" it might seek regarding directions the port managers received from abroad.

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