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Sun Spearheads Open DRM

Posted by Hemos on from the better-to-embrace-then-be-destroyed dept.

Steve from Hexus writes "If DRM is the future of controlling our media files, then perhaps the open source community can at the very least ensure that the dominant delivery system is an open standard. Hexus.net reports that Sun is spearheading a new open DRM project, which their lab workers and the open source community can contribute to. More information on project DReaM can be found at the Open Media Commons website." Tough call - DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?

3 of 579 comments (clear)

  1. Anyone home? by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot, hello, anyone there???

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    The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
  2. Frist Prost? by MarkEst1973 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not allowing posting at all is one good way to keep jackasses like me from typing "frist prost"

  3. Re:Sun must be pretty hurting . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You must be a guy AND a right-wing facist uneducated religious bastard to bash on pro-choice like that. Bet you approuve G. Bush.

    I have kids, mind you but i try to make the effort of understanding my fellow human being (what does that make you?)

    Anyway if you take this stance about life, then you should take the same stance about DRM : IP is sacred, thou shall not circumvent-it. In your narrow world view, if Microsoft s**t, you shoud bend down, swallow it and call it Genius...