Thursday, January 20, 2005
Via Techdirt: Moves to a copy protection standard in consumer electronics?
This story on Techdirt, and this press release, report that a whole bunch of consumer electronics companies - not just the (content owning) Sony, but also Samsung, Phillips and Matsushita, have agreed to join together to create a single copy protection standard.
Techdirt laments the development, concerned that (a) it means the consumer electronics companies have stopped 'fighting the good fight' and standing up to copyright owners, and (b) it will make things ever more complicated and limited for consumers (who will respond by going online to get stuff).
I can't help but think it may be more complicated than that - it could be that (a) the whole thing will go the same way SDMI did (ie nowhere), or (b) the standard will, because developed by consumer electronics companies rather than content owners, end up being a whole lot less restrictive than it might otherwise have been. So it might not be as bad as Techdirt says. But maybe I'm just a boogle-eyed optimist.
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