Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format

Posted by timothy on 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.

9 of 515 comments (clear)

  1. I JUST EJACULATED ALL OVER YOUR PARENTS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'M HUNGRY!

  2. Re:What? Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I didn't want to be the first one to say it.

  3. Re:One word... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YES OGG don't LIKE DRM OGG good CAVE MAN OGG OGG

  4. DRM _could_ be cool by spentrent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd like DRM more if it would make me a fucking cent.

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

    I have a theory for why posts get mysteriously modded to things that simply escape common sense. Allow me to elaborate...

    *enter Slashdot Modder...*

    w00t, I got a mirror TV! Wait, is that what I look like? Oh goodness me, I'm going to be BLIND...
    Bah! I still have to moderate Slashdot, 'tis my sacred duty... Bah, which button was which? Confound it all! I hope this is the right one...

    *Meanwhile, at Slashdot...*

    Score: 1337, "Godliest... Post... ...EVAR"
    MAHAHAH FP FP W00T I POSTZ0RZ FIRSTIEFIRSTIE

    Score: 2^666, "Informative"
    Hey, umm... I'm Bill Gates. I hate you all.

    I think you get the idea.

  6. Re:"Their own music" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why does irrational logic get modded up as informative. You'd never cut it as a lawyer.

  7. Three words... by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ogg Ogg GOOSE!

    --
    'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
  8. Re:More insidious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please do remember that while it was a Republican congress that passed DMCA, it was President Clinton that signed that bill into law.

  9. Re:More insidious by MikeDX · · 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!