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Disney Licenses MS Windows Media DRM
securitas writes "CNet/ZDNet reports that Walt Disney has licensed Microsoft's Windows Media DRM technology for use in online movie distribution via the Internet. Reuters reports that Disney plans to sell movies online in late 2004 or early 2005, while AP reports that the multi-year license for Microsoft's digital rights/restrictions management and copy-protection software will let Disney distribute content on mobile phones, PDAs and portable media players (mirror). The companies are expected to officially announce the deal later today (Monday)." Conspiracy theorists, start your engines; kidding aside, this is something to watch, as these are two titans of industry.
"There's a reason why most studios use Quicktime, windows MP blows chunks."
IMHO the reason why most studios use Quicktime is because they're clueless Mac users: as bad as Media Player is, the Quicktime player is far, far worse. I absolutely hate going to a movie site and finding that they only have trailers in Quicktime rather than a real video format like MPEG or AVI.
Microsoft is known throughout the world for screwing over business partners, why would Disney think this would be any different?
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Honestly, did you ever notice that two assholes can never work together? There always has to be someone that is willing to get pushed around by the asshole for these kinds of things to work. Really the Jobs-Eisner deal was destined to fail. How could these two ever get along? PS. This is not flamebait