RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM

An anonymous reader points out news that the music and movie studios are attempting to develop a new type of DRM that would allow customers more flexibility in playing content on multiple devices. The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) would establish a list of devices in your personal "domain" (unrelated to web domains), and minimizes or removes restrictions within that domain. TechCrunch summarizes DECE and notes that many of the big corporations have decided to support it. "The ecosystem envisioned by Singer et al revolves around a common set of formats, interfaces and other standards. Devices built to the DECE specifications would be able to play any DECE-branded content and work with any DECE-certified service. The goal is to create for downloads the same kind of interoperability that's been true for physical products, such as CDs and DVDs. Where it gets really interesting, though, is the group's stated intention to make digital files as flexible and permissive as CDs, at least within the confines of someone's personal domain. Once you've acquired a file, you could play it on any of your devices -- if it couldn't be passed directly from one DECE-ready device to another, you'd be allowed to download additional copies. And when you're away from home, you could stream the file to any device with a DECE-compatible Web browser."

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wow i can be an anonymous douchebag too

[Gman1968]

Hahaha What a duchebag...Im guessing part of the RIAA cadre. YOUR ALL CRIMINALS HAHAHAHA SUPPORT THE RIAA HAHAHAH ..Whats my name errrr I dont need no stinking name. BTW anon above I shaved your mammas back

being paid = "jerk"?

[mi]

and those sorts of control freaks are jerks

I don't understand, why wanting to be paid for your work is a sign of being a "control freak" and "jerk". I can only guess, you do unpaid charity work full-time, while living off of your trust fund...