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November 06, 2003
The Problem with Incompatible DRM
Posted by Ernest Miller
C|Net News has an interesting piece on the incompatibilities created by the use of DRM (Stalemate on digital content?). The underlying video might be standard MPEG, but the differing DRM used by two different systems makes the formats incompatible. You can't listen to Windows Media Audio (WMA) on iPod, and you can't listen to Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) iTunes on anything but iTunes.
This is sort of like the war between Beta and VHS, except here you have un-DRM-encumbered formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. Are Microsoft and Apple secretly trying to reduce the market success of their licensed music downloads?
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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