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CRF Reveals Draft of New DRM Technology

Posted by simoniker on from the mmmm-drm dept.

scubacuda writes "PC Advisor and others report that the CRF (Content Reference Forum), a new, cross-industry standards organisation that boasts Universal Music Group, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) and VeriSign among its members, has unveiled a new specification for a DRM technology. A draft of CRF Baseline Profile 1.0 is available for public review and comment." According to a report on CNET News, the "the [CRF-created] file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor."

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  1. DRM is .... by turniponion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DRM = digital radio mondiale - digital AM broadcasts from overseas that sound like FM with no noise.

    http://www.drm.org/indexdeuz.htm

    Oh, sh**! Wrong nerd hobby!

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    -Turnip Onion --- Neither micro nor $oft. Linux is a fine tool.
  2. Actually I favor reform, not repeal by MichaelCrawford · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I suggest repeal in my original post in a hypothetical way, in order to capture the reader's attention.

    But my personal feeling is that copyright should be reformed, not repealed.

    For example, while I feel that copyright should be allowed for software, I don't think it should be permitted for binary-only releases unless full source code is submitted to the copyright office, so that upon the expiration of the copyright, it can be released to the public domain.

    In the section of the article entitled Should Copyright Even Exist? I say:

    While copyright in its current form has outlived its usefulness to society, I don't think it ought to be eliminated entirely. I think the copyright term of fourteen years provided by the United States' first Copyright Act is about right. That would allow artists and writers to profit from their work, while the shorter term would allow you to legally share music from your favorite bands of your younger days while you are still able to enjoy them.

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  3. You'll get nothing but what you ask for by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if you allow other people to have control over your finances.

    When you give a company your bank account number and tell them, "Ok, just charge my account whenever your computer decides that I need to be charged" you are setting yourself up for trouble.

    These people are theives and they will steal from you, penny by penny until they drain your life blood away.

    When I walk in the store and take something from the shelf, plop it down at the check out and pay for it with GREEN CASH, ** --> I -- ** control my finances and there is no fear of being over charged or having bogus charges billed to me.

    I live by cash alone. Everything I own is totally paid for. I pay only utility bills and I pay them with cash at the store. If I need something, I buy it at the store, with cash.
    I don't get in over my head. I don't have ANY bank accounts and don't borrow or OWE anyone any money for any thing.

    I can't be nickle and dimed to death on a credit card account because I don't have one. I don't have ANY bank accounts, at all. I don't have to worry about someone hijacking my identity because I don't have one.