A.P. reports in Digitally informed: Is price discrimination the next big trend in e-commerce? that recent studies by U. Minn. Professor Andrew Odlyzko suggest that digital rights management (DRM) may enable increasing price discrimination among customers using the Net for purchases. Professor Odlyzko, a mathematician formerly with Bell Labs, has been publishing scholarly articles about electronic publishing, e-commerce and security issues of the Internet for many years. His "Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet,"(A. M. Odlyzko. Proc. ICEC03, ACM, 2003) is available at his page at the Digital Technology Center, where he is Assistant Vice President for Research, and DTC Director.
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