Group cuts mobile antipiracy software royalties

Alexander Turcic · 04-14-2005, 06:28 AM

The Register is reporting this morning that in the face of strong protest from GSM operators and handset manufacturers, the MPEG Licensing Authority (LA) have slashed their proposed rates for the mobile anti-piracy system OMA DRM 1.0.

The companies, including Sony Corp and Philips Electronics, said they would cut the proposed tariffs for anti-piracy technology by one third to $0.65 per mobile phone or other electronic gadget.

Unfortunately for the customer the DRM implementation means forking out for a mandatory feature that actually makes the customer worse off, for example the DRM measure will likely limit the customer's ability to transfer music from a phone to their PC let alone to CD or other portable devices. Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM!

TadW · 04-14-2005, 02:57 PM

Why does this leave a bad taste in my mouth?

04-14-2005, 06:28 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Group cuts mobile antipiracy software royalties The Register is reporting this morning that in the face of strong protest from GSM operators and handset manufacturers, the MPEG Licensing Authority (LA) have slashed their proposed rates for the mobile anti-piracy system OMA DRM 1.0. The companies, including Sony Corp and Philips Electronics, said they would cut the proposed tariffs for anti-piracy technology by one third to $0.65 per mobile phone or other electronic gadget. Unfortunately for the customer the DRM implementation means forking out for a mandatory feature that actually makes the customer worse off, for example the DRM measure will likely limit the customer's ability to transfer music from a phone to their PC let alone to CD or other portable devices. Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM!

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04-14-2005, 02:57 PM	#2
TadW Uebermensch Posts: 2,583 Karma: 1094606 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	Why does this leave a bad taste in my mouth?

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