Philips Talks to Web Music Stores, Blocks Microsoft

Philips Electronics is talking to Internet music retailers to help them sell songs and prevent piracy…separately, Philips has chosen not to support Microsoft’s Windows Media Player in its consumer electronics products. “We need a technology that works, that is available to everyone, managed in a fair way and not constrained to any particular group,” [Larry Blanford, Philips’ chief for its North American Consumer Electronics] said.

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