Microsoft certainly thinks so. Tech Digest features an interview with Jim Alkove, Microsoft’s Senior Director Technical Strategy, who puts the DRM scheme into perceptive. Much of the interview reads as a primer on the technology, but it’s valuable to have straight answers from the source. PlayReady, which is referred to an an access technology,” supports a range of business models, including subscriptions, rentals, purchases, pay-per-view and preview, for a wide variety of content types well beyond music and video. It will be available in the first half of this year for device implementations, and Alkove expects “we
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