Friday, April 7, 2006
Microsoft Increases DRM Investment
Posted by Jon Westfall in "NEWS" @ 01:00 PM
"With ever more songs, pictures, and video clips being sent over the airwaves to mobile phones, Microsoft plans to beef up its investment in digital rights management (DRM) technologies to help protect copyrighted material, the company said Wednesday on the opening day of CTIA Wireless 2006 in Las Vegas. Microsoft provided no financial details, saying only that the investments will be "significant." It plans to extend its Windows Media Digital Rights Management software to support new types of wireless services, it said. "
Whatever one feels about DRM, it appears to be something manufacturers want to support to make the (sometimes seemingly paranoid) content holders from doing really dumb things, such as Sony's rootkit fiasco last year. While they were obviously wrong (i.e. we knew what a rootkit was), other content holders may see Microsoft's investements as comforting, allowing us to have more content on our devices!
Whatever one feels about DRM, it appears to be something manufacturers want to support to make the (sometimes seemingly paranoid) content holders from doing really dumb things, such as Sony's rootkit fiasco last year. While they were obviously wrong (i.e. we knew what a rootkit was), other content holders may see Microsoft's investements as comforting, allowing us to have more content on our devices!
