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3G phones: Send Anywhere, But Not Anything

Posted by timothy on from the euphemism-nation dept.

glengyron writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting the success of an Australian company in developing Digital Rights Management for the next generation of mobile phones. Imagine if you could only forward email once, or not at all: these are the kind of restrictions being built into the next generaion of mobile phones. Read the article here. ODRL? Orwellian Digital Rights Language."

6 of 134 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  2. 2econd 9ost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Provided by thecond poth corporathion.

  3. Today's Lessons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Remember, everybody.
    • Change is bad.
    • New things should be reviled and feared, for they will surely make our lives worse rather than better.
    • Fear change.
    • Nothing's ever going to be as good as it was at some indeterminate time in the past.
    • Greed is the only thing standing between us and utopia.
    Repeat as necessary until you believe.
  4. Re:Actually... by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up "Funny" please.

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  5. Re:Actually... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent down "Offtopic", please

  6. phone features by Doppler00 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm still waiting for a phone that will actually tell you how many minutes you've used peak/off-peak instead of forcing you to go to there website. It's obvious why they don't have this feature, but still I'd rather have something useful like this than cameras or DRM.

    Oh, and why to some companies still charge $0.10 for you to send a 100 byte message when one minute of phone time is several kilobytes?