Friday, August 19, 2005

AppleInsider | Apple, Sony among those named in new DRM lawsuit

AppleInsider | Apple, Sony among those named in new DRM lawsuit: "Five of the top companies in the online music industry are being sued by an individual who claims that the digital rights management software used by the Internet's most popular music download services violates a seven-year-old technology patent."

Interesting in that the suit doesn't include Microsoft, who's DRM technology is used by a number of the services cited. I haven't read the claim, but it sounds like the patent is more about the manner is which DRM is used and not the technological underpinnings of how it works.

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