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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. Combat Piracy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They keep making that typo. They mean Combat Privacy.

  2. 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.)

  3. 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"