If it’s an “open-standard”, then figuring out how it works — the methods it uses to restrict uses — would be easier, too.
And thus, DEFEATING it would be easier, as well.

The other really fascinating thing is hearing a corporate weasel ADMITTING that “market competition” and attempts at vendor lock-in are opposites. Wow, who’d a thunk it.

The Japanese electronics and entertainment company said Thursday it lost 165 billion yen ($1.72 billion) in the January-March quarter, compared to a 29 billion yen profit for the same period the previous year. That brought its full fiscal year loss to a 98.9 billion yen ($1 billion).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/14/financial/f000413D33.DTL&feed=rss.business

Not really. They can say one thing and do another.

After all, these liars “promised” not to file new cases in their ’sue em all’ campaign, but the campaign is still continuing.

This isn’t much of a change of heart now, is it? He somehow thinks that openness of technology would have made DRM more effective, if I’m reading this right. But that sounds more like he’s talking out of his ass, as we have come to expect from suits, than like he has anything meaningful to say.

I’ll believe a turnaround about DRM when I see it. This is Sony, after all, and there’s not much historical reason to believe they’ll stop using DRM even though they now claim it was a failure.