Google’s Schmidt roots for DRM
p2pnet.net news:- Proponents of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control have received one of their most significant endorsements yet.
“We are definitely committed to (offering copyright protection technologies),” Reuters has Google ceo Eric Schmidt saying. “It is one of the company’s highest priorities.
“We just reviewed that (issue) about an hour ago,” Schmidt told Reuters when asked what Google was doing to make so-called anti-piracy technologies widely available to video owners. “It is going to roll out very soon … It is not far away.”
Schmidt declined to give a specific timeframe of weeks or months to cover all potential users, saying that any move would take time to cover all Google’s services, including YouTube, and to be made available to all copyright holders wishing to use the anti-piracy technology, says the story, adding:
“Protecting copyrighted material is likely to involve an endless cat-and-mouse game to keep pace with hackers bent on breaking such security tools.”
Schmidt can say what he wants but the simple, unshakeable reality is: anything which can be seen or heard can be copied by one analog or digital means or another.
Also See:
Reuters – Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority, February 21, 2007
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