Consumer Electronics Companies Plan Common DRM Standard

Posted by michael on Friday January 21, 2005 @07:48AM 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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Re:Work around... by killjoe · 2005-01-21 08:40 · Score: 3, Interesting

There won't be a single standard. Did you notice which names are NOT on the list? MS and Apple, the two largest companies pushing their own DRM technologies. Also note the absence of content providors such as RIAA.

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