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Buzzword du Jour: DRM

Posted by timothy on from the digital-recording-monopoly dept.

mattmcal writes "Though the RSA Conference in San Francisco and Bill Gates' keynote were expected to stir up several headlines on 'security' today, the news coming from 3GSM in Cannes seemed to deliver more tangible results. From Qualcomm's new DRM chipsets to NDS' mobile VideoGuard, several interesting 'DRM (digital rights management)' announcements raise the bar for distribution-shy media companies who may have increasing opportunities for driving content to mobile devices. But Intel's Barrett knows this is only the beginning of a complicated standards problem."

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  1. DRM? RSA!! by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny
    Everytime I see 'RSA' I think 'Republic of South Africa'

    I'm still screwed up on CRM. How about giving the damn acronyms a break?

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    1. Re:DRM? RSA!! by bursch-X · · Score: 2, Funny

      Give him the death blow with WYSIWYG.

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  2. Digital Rights Management by DonaldDuckBigO · · Score: 3, Funny

    My rights don't need to be managed, thank-you. You'll take gcc out of my cold, dead fingers.

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  3. Re:Remember the "science" part by jmv · · Score: 2, Funny

    You got it completely backwards. You need to convince the DRM developer that his scheme is unbreakable and that no further review will help. Then you convince all the media companies to make them standard. ...and then you break it (see DVD CSS) and you're able to use the CD/DVD you bought as you please.

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  4. DRM is as old as digital technology. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And look how effective it has been.
    He says as he browses through his Terrabyte RAID of Divx movies planning the evening's viewing while the never ending playlist of MP3s piped throughout the house rolls on in the background.
    Oops, one of the P2P boxes just crashed. Gotta go.

  5. Re:It's fundamentally silly by trezor · · Score: 4, Funny
    • In fact even with a routine that marries DRM to hardware

    Funny you should say that, as I thought of a handy anti-DRM slogan right now.

    DRM is to media and playback, what fathers are to girlfriends and sex.

    Ok, so now I am a geek.

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  6. Re:New Oxymoron? by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 2, Funny

    CD's aren't anywhere near as flexible as old records were, just try bending one a bit, it'll snap on ya right away...

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  7. RMS not DRM by herderofcats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, at the conference the buzz-word is not DRM, but RMS i.e. Rights Management System -- that is what several companies are calling their DRMs.

    I'm not sure why marketing departments are re-framing DRM as RMS -- it is only removing digital and adding system. Maybe digital is now just a noise word? Or maybe they want their RMS to do more then digital rights?

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