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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.

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  1. we are geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    we don't want to pay for ANYTHING! I wonder why I can't find a job.

  2. Re:More insidious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    As for me, I'm just glad I don't have to sit in the cubicle adjacent to yours and inhale your fumes all day.

  3. Re:Why add DRM to MP3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    moron

  4. Penetration? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    DRM for all file formats has penetration - bend over and feel the penetration of the RIAA/MPAA's long, hard tool.

  5. Re:So What? by Imperator · · Score: -1, Troll

    WTF? Do you know how a CPU works? Have you ever programmed in assembly language? Do you even understand the stored-program concept? Apparently your moderators were equally clueless and very, very paranoid. Fucking karma whore.

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  6. Re:Doesn't mean much now. by filmcritic · · Score: -1, Troll

    Amen brother!!!

    They know mp3 is, at this point, basically a pirate's format. No legitimate digital music source worth mentioning uses mp3 to encode. Furthermore, egg, whooops, odd, whoops again, ogg is only used by brain dead linux thieves to use amongst themselves, so it's basically a pirate format also. No one really believes ogg is a contender for anything in the real world.