Home › News › Industry News
EU Wants Windows Cleaned of DRM
"The reason for the EC's concern is that ContentGuard owns key patents based on early 1990s work by Mark Stefik, a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, on DRM technologies. These include machine-readable markup languages to attach rights to content so that, for example, an article could be read but not printed, or a rights-holder could specify how many times a song could be played. The technologies also include the ability to attach fee-charging mechanisms, and other such basic DRM ideas."
Even although Microsoft is an American company, they will certainly listen to a voice as powerful as the EU. They would be foolish not to.
User Comments (1)
Post a comment|
MrGaribaldi
on October 8, 2004 4:04 AM |
My attitude towards the EU gets better and better every day ;)Nic> See, no MS or windows bashing from me :D |
Most Popular
| Trending | Featured |
-
iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak tool released, supports 4S, iPad 3
-
After five days, Facebook ranks as worst IPO flop of the decade
-
Rumor: Windows 8 RC will launch June 1, will ship with Adobe Flash
-
Diablo III becomes the fastest-selling PC game in history
-
Rumor: AMD "Piledriver" FX CPU production to begin Q3 2012
Editors' Mouse Picks
Subscribe to TechSpot
Get free exclusive content, learn about new features and tech breaking news.
