Microsoft to Become Mobile DRM Standard?

An anonymous reader writes "It seems most of the media has missed the significance of Microsoft's recent partnership with DoCoMo to put Windows Media DRM on i-mode handsets. If all the i-mode players adopt Windows DRM, that gives Microsoft access to a significant chunk of the mobile market. Couple this with the more recent MTV Urge announcement and you've got Microsoft set to own the DRM space - at least on mobile devices - by stealth. Telecoms.com has a take on the situation, but also reveals that the GSM Association may be on the verge of recommending Windows mobile DRM to all its members. Puts the French copyright and DRM legislation in a whole new perspective - interoperability issues can be solved by removing the competition."

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Well, that's alright then

[A nonymous Coward]

Microsoft owns the mobile DRM space? Great! Now they will fuck it up like they fuck up everything else, it won't even be marginally functional until release 3.1, and that will take them years. Everybody will hate it and its bugs and misfeatures, it won't work, content factories will come to realize DRM doesn't restrict anything except their ability to attract new customers, and DRM will get the bloody black eye it deserves.

That's alright then.