DRM blanket goes mobile
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| Provider of digital rights management kit, Secure Digital Container,
| has today announced plans to bring next-gen DRM gear to over hundred
| different mobile devices.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36153
Related:
Microsoft supplies mobile DRM in Japan, eyes everywhere else
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| It appears that Microsoft may be positioning itself to make a run at
| grabbing control of the mobile digital rights management (DRM) market,
| having come to an agreement with Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile phone company
| to standardize that provider's phones with Windows Media Audio and
| Windows Media DRM.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060517-6857.html
The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM
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| 1. DRM doesn't prevent illegal use of files, it just makes it a bit
| more difficult to access them.
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| 2. All it takes is one person to crack the file and it can be made
| available to everyone.
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| 3. Anyone selling content on CD is already selling unprotected files
| anyway.
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| 4. DRM adds a lot of costs for content producers
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| 5. There's a huge hidden cost in trying to sell DRM'ed content
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| 6. Often the costs of the DRM are passed along to the consumer as well.
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| 7. DRM-free content will play on your device of today and your device
| of tomorrow
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| 8. Your media devices of the future will be significantly different than
| your media devices of the present.
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| 9. DRM fundamentally changes who is control of your media.
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| 10. Whenever you buy DRM'ed content you support the system of DRM
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http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2006/11/the_top_10_argu.html
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