InterTrust's technology enables publishers to collect usage data on protected content.

The owner of the protected contents, divide this information in the form of one or more Titles.

The bills would also allow private citizens and companies to sue to stop what they believed to be theft of protected content.

So the protected content infects every other content that happens to be going through the system at the time.

But what the specs say is that, depending on how much protected content is present, you partially shut it down.

All digital devices would be required to recognize the flag, which would prevent the protected content from being distributed on the Internet.

David answers: Image constraints only apply to protected content being played and not to the desktop as a whole.

And certainly when you're not playing protected content you're not having your bus encrypted because there's just no one asking for it.

Media Foundation is not limited to the playback of protected content.

As a result, users of Google will not be able to download such protected content to portable devices.