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[FYI] More Silliness On Interoperability and DRM



<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2004/02/17#a605>

More Silliness On Interoperability and DRM

Billboard reports that the music industry is pushing Apple and MS to 
solve their DRM interop problems, and even suggests that there have 
been private talks between the relevant parties.  The solution: 
"transcoding" - being able to securely turn a FairPlay-AAC file into 
a Secure WMA file.  So Apple won't sell you an actual WMA file, but 
it will provide you the means to turn their files into WMA.

Huh?

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Posted by Derek Slater on 2/17/04; 11:59:33 PM from the General news 
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