Korea ’superforward’ in DRM
p2pnet.net News:- Koreans, “super forward in many things electronic,” are now also superforward in DRM.
And that’s because, “they’re leading in their treatment of DRM – making different DRM schemes interchangeable,” says DigitalLifestyles.
“By making DRM system interchangeable, the hope is that everyone remains happy – the content owner, because the content stays ‘protected’ by the DRM and the consumer because they have the freedom to move it to any playing device they have,” says the story.
How will this miracle of consumer control be worked?
Via the EXIM (Export/Import) standard developed Korea’s Electronic & Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and INKA Entworks, says DigitalLifestyles, adding:
“It should be wide reaching as up to 90% of online music sites and 70% of portable music devices deployed in Korea at the moment use DRM solutions based on the EXIM standard. What differentiates the Korean mobile music market is that all phones sold since 2003 have a USB connector, which is used to transfer music they download via their computers, to their mobiles. This is sometimes called sideloading.”
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Also See:
DigitalLifestyles – DRM-Interchange Alive And Living In Korea, December 13, 2006
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