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“Under the original patent pool proposed by MPEG LA royalty rates for patents essential to digital rights management functionality would be $1 per device to be paid by product manufacturers while service providers would pay 1 percent of any transaction in which users pay for digital content. That scheme, however, angered the GSM Association, suggesting the per-device fee touted by the MPEG LA was unreasonable and excessive, and that… Read More

“The association threatened to abandon the open standard and called for new, cheaper digital rights management (DRM) systems, although this could mean fragmentation that would prove frustrating for consumers. The operators' complaints follow similar grumbling by manufacturers of mobile phones and consumer electronics, who told Reuters in late February that a $1 royalty per mobile device was too high a price just to protect… Read More

Music lawyers filed the newest cases against 532 “John Doe” defendants – identified only by their IP addresses – and expected to work through the courts to learn their names and where they live. The recording association said each person was illegally distributing an average of more than 800 songs online. Each defendant faces potential civil penalties or settlements that could cost them thousands of dollars. The… Read More