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Consumer Electronics Companies Plan Common DRM Standard

Posted by michael on from the one-standard-to-bind-them-all dept.

Rinisari writes "'The world's four biggest consumer electronics companies have agreed to start using a common method to protect digital music and video against piracy and illegal copying, they said on Thursday,' begins a Reuters article on Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, and Sony's new alliance to establish interoperability and combat the evergrowing 'threat' to the music industry. The new alliance is to be called the 'Marlin Joint Development Association.'" The BBC's story on this issue is better, with quotes from several people.

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  1. Oh yeah, this'll go well. by pergamon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry, the association is named after a fish. This isn't going anywhere.

    1. Re:Oh yeah, this'll go well. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      But he's a clownfish. And for a clownfish, he isn't really that funny.

    2. Re:Oh yeah, this'll go well. by Rinisari · · Score: 2, Funny

      Something is very fishy about this organization. Could it be some sort of red herring? The groupers might need a trout slap if things go musky. For now, we'll just perch and watch.

      --
      Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
  2. Combat Piracy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They keep making that typo. They mean Combat Privacy.

  3. Re:Now watch... by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Sales of newer electronic devices plummet as consumers realize the older DRM free players will play MP3 files, and the newer models offer no advantage.

    ...sales of current electronic devices skyrocket as consumers stockpile for the apocalypse!

    (They play us all like a fiddle.)

  4. New DRM.. by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Look dear, there's a box with buttons and wires on it that came with our new DVD player."
    "What does it say on that card?"
    "Attach wires to genitals, then read card. How odd. Well, when in Rome..." *zip* *fwit* *squitch* *squitch*
    "Ok, the card says 'Read this Phrase aloud, I will not copy DVD's'"
    "I will not copy DVD's. Hey a light came on which says 'LIE'"     *BZZOWNT* "Yaaaaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!!"

    --

    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  5. Riiiiiight by Erik+Fish · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember a few years ago when all future hard drives were going to have DRM built into them? There was even an alliance of all the big hard drive manufacturers of the time.

    The headline should read "Consumer Electronics Companies Promise They Won't Cum In Hollywood's Mouth"

  6. Re:Notice who is missing? by Saven+Marek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Despite concerns over the lack of Apple support for Marlin, Sony believes that working together with Matsushita, Samsung and Philips as an alliance can bring the numbers in their favour

    Yeah. when your up against the 85% market share and you have 4 companies whose total music share is 4%, you're really going to be unstoppable.