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ukhackster writes:
Microsoft has launched a new digital rights management package aimed at mobile phone users, at the 3GSM show in Barcelona. The PlayReady system will apparently allow people to share protected content between multiple devices — for example, they could buy a music track and then install it on their PC, mobile phone, and PDA.
DRM has been getting a tough press recently, following Steve Jobs' attack on the music industry last week. There are concerns that PlayReady could be an attempt by Microsoft to fragment the mobile DRM market (perhaps to give its Zune player a boost), but analysts have given it a cautious welcome and several firms, including Verizon, are on-board.
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Hobb3s writes:
The guys at the Doom 9 forum. are marking February 11, 2007 as the day when digital rights management was defeated on Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. It turns out that cracking the high definition disc formats was much easier than was originally thought. The processing key that can unravel the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray discs has been found by a clever encryption fighter named arnezami. Story
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joeflies writes:
The dispute arises out of whether the blogger can use clips of show recordings in grassroots activism against the station, and where to draw the line on digital free speech for both parties. The story has been picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle
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mrbigsocks writes:
Will Apple release a version of its Safari browser for Windows? The Mozilla Foundation seems to believe such a move is a distinct possibility. Buried in the wiki information the Mozilla Foundation posted this week about its future plans for Firefox is a statement under the "Observations & Assumptions" section that reads:
"Apple may have Safari on Windows with likely ties to iTunes & .Mac"
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Sarusa writes:
If this is true, it's Beta vs VHS all over again and HD-DVD may be the foregone winner of the format wars.
First, Heise reports (summarized from the German by sgknox.com) that Digital Playground (NSFW), who were committed to Blu-ray last year, are now producing HD-DVD titles instead. No Blu-ray disk manufacturer would make their disks because Sony doesn't want porn on Blu-ray (just as with Betamax).
Second, as reported by tgdaily, the porn industry at CES overwhelmingly favors HD-DVD because it's much cheaper and easier to produce.
As noted in the tgdaily article, porn was a huge factor in VHS winning the VHS/Beta format wars even though most people don't like to acknowledge it. Porn, like gaming, pushes tech adoption.
