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DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format

Posted by timothy on Monday March 1, 2004 @02:56PM from the what-a-dumb-name dept.

Bob Zer Fish writes "Cnet News.com has a leading story saying that the venerable MP3 music format is getting a makeover aimed at blocking unauthorized copying. Thomson and Fraunhofer, the companies that license and own the patents behind the MP3 digital music technology, are in the midst of creating a new digital rights management add-on. Of course, there are current standards, but most are incompatible." An anonymous reader points to this brief mention as well.

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DRM _could_ be cool by spentrent · 2004-03-01 15:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'd like DRM more if it would make me a fucking cent.
Three words... by black+mariah · 2004-03-01 16:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ogg Ogg GOOSE!

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Re:More insidious by MikeDX · 2004-03-01 22:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sorry to sound negative, but this is akin to:

I took a shredder to my bedroom once, and started to put my penis into the gap where you normal put paper. To my horror, my penis started to get shredded! blood and cartilage everywhere. The shredder was eating my penis faster than my body could grow a new one! Ok so it repainted my room all red but still, I didnt ask for it. Oh the pain, the pain of it all!