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HBO CTO Bob Zitter thinks we should just call DRM “Digital Consumer Enablement (DCE)” so that people would understand that this technology enables them to use content in so many new and wonderful ways.

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HBO CTO Bob Zitter thinks we should just call DRM “Digital Consumer Enablement (DCE)” so that people would understand that this technology enables them to use content in so many new and wonderful ways.

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"I don't want to use the term DRM any longer," said Zitter.

HBO Exec Wants To Change "DRM" to "Digital Consumer Enablement" - The Consumerist 2007

"They say we can't turn off the analog output," Zitter said.

HBO Exec Wants To Change "DRM" to "Digital Consumer Enablement" - The Consumerist 2007

Another possibility, says Zitter, is “early window exhibition,” either in the form of making a movie available through video-on-demand VOD the same day as the home video release or allowing home theater users to pay extra to see a high-definition version of a theatrical release in the comfort of their home.

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According to the AP, Zitter confessed privately after a panel discussion that it's lack of DRM ha, ha, ha that is keeping HBO from releasing programs OnDemand.

HBO Exec Wants To Change "DRM" to "Digital Consumer Enablement" - The Consumerist 2007

Still, Zitter liked what he saw as he leaned over a fence just above a bullpen beyond the right-field wall.

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Both Zitter and Hardmeyer are in their 60s and said they attended games as youths at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, one of the parks remembered with the most nostalgia by baseball fans of a certain age.

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Zitter said it wouldn't be fair to compare a minor-league park to a major-league stadium.

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Zitter reported that several years ago an occurrence of the disease originating in one source in upstate New York spread to 14 counties by the end of the summer, "destroying tomatoes in the entire region."

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