“Key issues for the future of Digital Rights Management (DRM) are the question of proprietary versus “open” technologies, and whether governments should get involved, according to a new report from ABI Research.” This struggle is most evident in the mobile phone industry with the controversy over the license fees imposed by MPEG LA and the current debate by US legislators over whether to force Apple to open its FairPlay DRM technology…”There are over 1.7 billion handset users out there, so you need to have some open standard to make it easy for content owners to forge relationships with service providers, equipment vendors and IC manufacturers. If proprietary standards remain, the industry will suffer from the added expense.”
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