Consumer Electronics Companies Plan Common DRM Standard

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.

Comments

this is a great idea

[frobino]

all this means is that there will only be one method of protection to crack

Good,

[Sebastian Jansson]

Then the crack will be universial. :)

Excellent!

[meringuoid]

They standardise, and so we only have to crack one DRM system.

And the more different devices it's embedded into, the harder it is for them to introduce a fixed, more secure version. I think this should be encouraged!