Labels Push for a Unified DRM Standard

Posted by michael on Friday October 8, 2004 @10:05PM from the one-drm-to-bind-them-all dept.

thejoelpatrol writes "Bad news for Apple fanatics but good news for all the crazy slashdotters who want an iPod but feel dirty using Apple's DRM: the labels are getting together and insisting that online stores standardize their DRM methods. Being the providers of the music, the labels clearly wield a lot of power, but so does Apple: without iTunes, the online music business is next to nothing. Will Apple give in? Not if they can help it -- they're on top of the world. Before anyone messes it up, AAC is an open format, while the Fairplay DRM standard is not."

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Hackers delight by AmiMoJo · 2004-10-08 23:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

This is the best thing that could happen really. If everyone uses the same standard, it only has to be cracked once.

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This would be great by aztektum · 2004-10-09 07:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

An industry standard DRM would be great. Then I'd only have to download one circumvention device instead of multiply for different schemes.

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