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Saturday, April 02, 2005
DRM is too expensive, continued...
Snippets that say it all:
"The mobile phone industry's Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed an open standard for anti-piracy software, but the technology used by the standard is too expensive"
"The pricey anti-piracy technology is managed by the MPEG LA group, which pooled essential patents owned by InterTrust and ContentGuard, two small but powerful digital rights management companies, along with consumer electronics giants Sony Corp (SNE.N) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd from Japan, and Philips from the Netherlands."
"If handset makers had put anti-piracy protection software in all 684 million mobile phones sold last year, the $684 million in royalties would have exceeded total digital music sales on the Web for the year."
Yahoo! News - Mobile Carriers Seek Cheaper Anti-Piracy Software
"The mobile phone industry's Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed an open standard for anti-piracy software, but the technology used by the standard is too expensive"
"The pricey anti-piracy technology is managed by the MPEG LA group, which pooled essential patents owned by InterTrust and ContentGuard, two small but powerful digital rights management companies, along with consumer electronics giants Sony Corp (SNE.N) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd from Japan, and Philips from the Netherlands."
"If handset makers had put anti-piracy protection software in all 684 million mobile phones sold last year, the $684 million in royalties would have exceeded total digital music sales on the Web for the year."
Yahoo! News - Mobile Carriers Seek Cheaper Anti-Piracy Software
