Recent Milestones in Loosening Digital Rights Management

The media world is experiencing an abrupt change in thinking about imposing sharp limits on the ability of consumers to freely move digital content around. Equipment, software and content companies collaborated for years to perfect closed systems, such as Apple’s wildly successful iPod and iTunes handhelds with copyrighted songs and video that do not play on other hardware platforms.

But government regulators and consumers are now pressing for content to be portable across multiple platforms. They assail digital rights management (DRM) software that defeats cross-platform interoperability—which in turn indirectly forces consumers to buy the same song or video for each of their devices.

Source: Kagan Insights

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