p2pnet.net News- “DRM” and “better end-user experience “. Is it possible to put the two together in the same sentence?

Apparently it is, at least as far as people at this week’s DRM Strategies Conference & Expo are concerned.

[I’m irresistibly drawn to an image of people in top hats and scruffy long-tailed coats trying to sell each other strange, oily DRM compounds – Ed]

"It’s the iceberg that lies ahead of us," Knox Carey, director of technology initiatives for Intertrust Technologies, is quoted as saying in publish.com, “referring to the fact the consumers will increasingly want to play their digital content on all the media devices that they own”.

Heresy!

"There are big risks to not addressing this immediately," he said, “speculating that the lack of DRM interoperability will impede acceptance of new consumer electronic devices and create incentives for piracy.

But, "It’s getting easier every day," he said with regard to the constant increase in the availability of tools for unauthorized copying of protected content, states publisher.com.

However, it took Rajan Samtani, director of sales and marketing for Time Warner and Microsoft’s ContentGuard to tell it like it is.

"Business intention to interoperate is the main gating factor," he said, "not technology."

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See:-
publish.com – DRM Experts Debate Limits of Interoperability, July 28, 2005

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