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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Mobile DRM, remedy yet not found
The 3.5 billion (Euro?) lost by the media indsutry is here said to be due to piracy. In my opinion loss of sales revenue and piracy are not linearly opposing.
In any case The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) rallies for an open standard that can be used to protect all kinds of commercial service-to-phone content transfer.
It's not said if they promote OMA DRM or not. OMA DRM has hit a big snag by being so expensive for phone manufacturers.
Mobile DRM to cost E3.5bn [Mobile Entertainment Forum]
Press release about a Frost&Sullivan report on Mobile DRM:
Growth of Mobile DRM Likely to Drive Demand for Next-Generation Mobile Content Services
From the press release: For example, industry fragmentation due to a lack of clarity over OMA DRM v2.0 implementation royalty rates is compelling mobile operators to implement readily available proprietary DRM solutions.
In any case The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) rallies for an open standard that can be used to protect all kinds of commercial service-to-phone content transfer.
It's not said if they promote OMA DRM or not. OMA DRM has hit a big snag by being so expensive for phone manufacturers.
Mobile DRM to cost E3.5bn [Mobile Entertainment Forum]
Press release about a Frost&Sullivan report on Mobile DRM:
Growth of Mobile DRM Likely to Drive Demand for Next-Generation Mobile Content Services
From the press release: For example, industry fragmentation due to a lack of clarity over OMA DRM v2.0 implementation royalty rates is compelling mobile operators to implement readily available proprietary DRM solutions.
