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Real DRM

Posted by michael on from the one-drm-to-bind-you dept.

Cinematique writes "C|Net is reporting that RealNetworks has released a format-independent Digital Rights Management software called Helix DRM. Real states that MP3, AAC, and even OGG can now be released with a DRM wrapper. And this is groundbreaking how? More importantly, do they expect content producers and consumers alike to really adopt this?"

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  1. Obnoxious by Ponty · · Score: 4, Troll

    Real has been moving toward this sort of thing for a long time. I don't know why anone sticks with them: their player is crap, they're just an obnoxious company, and they make it _really_ hard to download the free player.

  2. DRM is not an evil technology! by davevr · · Score: 0, Troll

    People here always focus on the use of DRM by companies to prevent you from sharing/stealing/borrowing/whatever their copyrighted media. But that is just one small application area.

    A significant use of DRM in the future is going to be in controlling the access and distribution of personal media (such as family photos that are on a public web site). DRM can prevent people from going to Yahoo! and grabbing those pictures of your kids in the bathtub and adding them to their "naked pictures of children" web site/CD/etc. These scenarios are much more important than those around protecting major media content. If the big media companies want to pay for this stuff to be developed, that is fine by me.