Azure RMS user licensing

Hi,
Im struggling with finding clear information on licensing surrounding Azure RMS, in particular protecting files on on-premise file servers.
To begin with we only want to use Azure RMS to protect content stored within on-premise Windows 2012 servers using FCI and the Azure RMS Connector.
In terms of licensing the users do we need to
A) License each user that will be consuming protected content on premise?
or
B) License the users that will be applying the protection to content.
i.e. does a user need a RMS license to consume on premise protected documents.
A previous engagement with Microsoft Partner PreSales Advisory stated that we do not need to license users that are purely consuming content and only need to license uses putting the protection and policys in place but we wanted to confirm this.
We are aware that with Applications such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online all users need an RMS license but we need the clarification on on-premise file servers.
Can anyone help?
Many Thanks

Hi Carol,
Thank you for the further explanation this certainly does help clear things up.
Thinking about this scenario more and more it does seem like it could be quite cumbersome to license with a high potential to not license correctly certainly in a large environment.
Depending on how you have you NTFS permissions setup it strikes me that you would need to license any user that has the potential to save / create a file in a location as by default they would be the owner of that new file.
Would it be a sensible suggestion to have a license in place for all members of the security group that has the ability to create files in the location you are protecting? Further on from that if a we did this and a member of that security group didn't have
a license would we breach licensing regulations or would they simply not have the relevant functionality available to them? Taking this even further if the protection gets put in place by a policy / FCI rule surely they wouldn't need any different level
of functionality as FCI will be assisting in putting the protection in place not the user creating the files.
Sorry to bombard you with my questions / ramblings!
Thanks

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