Business dictionary.com defines digital rights as: “Copyrights associated with digitised content (such as music or written works) published and/or distributed online over internet or other computerised communication networks”3.
Long before the arrival of digital or even electronic media, copyright holders, content producers, or other financially or artistically interested parties had business and legal objections to copying technologies. The advent of personal computers as household appliances has made it convenient for users to convert media (which may or may not be copyrighted) originally in a physical/analog form or a broadcast form into a universal, digital form (ripping). This, combined with the internet and popular file sharing tools, has made unauthorised distribution of copies of copyrighted digital media (digital piracy) much easier.