"A tussle over antipiracy technology is looming over the young mobile phone content business, with big phone companies claiming that new music and video services could be derailed as a result. At issue is a set of technologies aimed at protecting music and other content from being indiscriminately copied after being sold through mobile phone networks, a critical component of the new content services if record labels and movie studios are to sign on."
Once again Sony proves to be a big fat pain in the ass when it comes to copyright protection. This is one fight I hope Microsoft wins. Janus/WMA DRM may not be perfect, but at least it's a good standard that Plays For Sure across a broad spectrum of hardware. Better to have Microsoft extorting the carriers than Sony. :wink:
Microsoft rates have been quoted at a flat 18 cents per device for the whole kit-n-kaboodle; decoder *and* DRM.
The rates MPEG LA is charging are only for the DRM.
Mobile Music Efforts on Hold for DRM Battle
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