MS, Philips, DRM alliance
p2pnet.net News:- Speaking of DRM, Royal Philips Electronics and Microsoft say they’re of a mind when it comes to ‘copyright protection’.
Accordingly, they’ve signed long-term nonexclusive agreements to, “facilitate the seamless flow of digital entertainment content between Windows-based PCs and products equipped with the Nexperia family of semiconductors by Philips,” they say, going on:
“Philips plans to support Microsoft Windows Media Audio and Video and Windows Media Digital Rights Management 10 (DRM) technology in its Nexperia family of multimedia semiconductors for use in digital media receivers, personal video recorders, portable audio players, IP set-top boxes and video phones.
“Support of Windows Media in Nexperia solutions for in-car entertainment as well as next-generation digital TV systems will follow later in the year.”
In other words, DRM for everything.
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See:-
DRM – RFID DRM? Yes, says UCLA, p2pnet, May 12, 2005
DRM for everything – Philips and Microsoft to Bridge Consumer Electronics and PC Worlds for Digital Entertainment, May 11, 2005
May 12th, 2005 at 5:44 pm
The flow of “digital entertainment content” is not the only flow I’m sensing here!
May 12th, 2005 at 5:52 pm
This is what Orwell spoke about with double-speak. Closing the doors to free market competition being called a “bridge”? None of this is a legitimate protection of copyright, but a way to circumvent anti-trust/competition rules by claiming that this tied selling protect copyright.
We do need anti-circumvention legislation, but not anti-circumvention of TPMS — we need anti-circumvention of anti-trust/competition legislation.
Hello? Industry Canada/ Competition Burea? Are you listening? http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/
For the reader, here is the Enquiries & Complaints section of the Competition Bureau website: http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/internet/index.cfm?itemID=19&lg=e
May 12th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
If these greedy big media control freaks make the “mainstream digital entertainment landscape” too ugly and COSTLY (the real issue) I’ll just stop going there. One already has to slog through hip deep sewage (a prime example of this insipid rubbish would be “american idol”) just to find the few bits of worthwhile content that somehow slipped through. I for one will not pay a premium to sift through endless heaps of DRM “protected” garbage. Damn, I used to like Philips… I have a feeling I won’t be alone out there in the “unprotected” fringe, with no shortage of content either…
May 13th, 2005 at 10:09 am
Their using my name (Philip of course) along with a swear word (DRM). Anyone insuating I have any thing to do with DRM should be sueable by me!