DRM knocks at the enterprise door.

So far, enterprise IT isn't mired in the DRM swamp. For the most part, the content that DRM aims to control is produced by the entertainment industry and consumed in the home. But as licensing regimes creep into the technical infrastructure, IT becomes, willy-nilly, an indirect stakeholder in the DRM debate. There are more direct links too. Although most of us don't yet use digital audio and video as ordinary modes of business communication, some do and more will. Enterprises are going to be a major producer and consumer of digital assets, and they would want to be able to control access and track usage -- if there were practical and cheap ways to do so.

IT has always …