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Father of MPEG Replies To Jobs On DRM

Posted by kdawson on from the way-forward dept.

marco_marcelli writes with a link to the founder and chairman of MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione, replying to Steve Jobs on DRM and TPM. After laying the groundwork by distinguishing DRM from digital rights protection, Chiariglione suggests we look to GSM as a model of how a fully open and standardized DRM stack enabled rapid worldwide adoption. He gently reminds Jobs (and us) that there exists a reference implementation of such a DRM stack — Chillout — that would be suitable for use in the music business.

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  1. chillout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Open source... DRM...

    I don't know how to feel just now!

  2. Re:What's with the Pro DRM Articles? by limecat4eva · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, what's with all the opposing viewpoints lately? We come to Slashdot to turn off our brains, not to actually think.

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  3. Re:What's with the Pro DRM Articles? by Loadmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly right. If you have a view you better have no doubt, because once you doubt you could be wrong. Which makes your stance untenable. It's like back when God existed. He doubted the logic of his existence and *poof* he disappeared. Do you want to disappear? Then never doubt what you think. Ever.

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  4. Re:DRM TPM GSM... bwahhh??? by PhxBlue · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why can't the author explain those things? Simple journalism: who, what, where, why, how.

    You seem to be new here. Welcome to Slashdot!

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  5. Re:DRM doesn't kill music; people kill music. by JazzLad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, shoot, when you put it like that MS/other DRM creators seem in the right ...

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