Interview With The MPEG Committee's Founder

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 13, 2004 @08:11PM from the moving-pictures dept.

JasonFleischer points out this "interview with Leonardo Chiariglione, digital video pioneer and founder of the MPEG standards committee, is available on the public access section Scientific American's website. In the interview Chiariglione explains the motivations and hopes for his new Digital Media Project -- an attempt to integrate existing technologies to create a transparent, universal, non-proprietary system for digital rights management. Of particular interest to some /.ers may be his old article from Linux Journal that talks about the relationship between Open Source and MPEG standards."

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Sounds good... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-13 20:23 · Score: 1, Funny

...but how long will it now take me to download Lord of the Rings from Kazaa?
Irony by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-13 20:56 · Score: 3, Funny

non-proprietary system for digital rights management
There's a deep irony in that phrase, if you look at it the right way.
Re:Some people will love it, just not users by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-13 21:12 · Score: 2, Funny

was the DVD Mission Impossible??
On behalf of horny geeks ... by Compact+Dick · 2004-04-13 21:25 · Score: 3, Funny

I thank you and your committee for making authentic porn a reality.

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