CE Giants Form DRM Alliance

Sony, Panasonic, Samsung and Philips have formed an alliance to make sure there is interoperability between their hardware and music copy protection.

“The alliance, called the Marlin Joint Development Association (Marlin JDA), gives the companies standard specifications to build DRM functions into their devices that support commonly used modes of content distribution.

A first version will come out by the summer of 2005, and it will support another, longer-term initiative, called Coral, which is aimed at developing a set of DRM-neutral agreements to ensure interoperability between all DRM systems and standards”

Ina story reported Friday 1/21/05, Sony president Ken Kutaragi admitted that Sony made serious mistakes when it came to digital music. This could be the first step to getting on the right path.

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