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The problem with all DRM is that, to date, there has been no DRM system that actually works!
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Accordingly, a slate of torrent portals like Vodo offers consumers media choices that include outright ownership, no-DRM formats that are transferable to mobile devices, zero pricing, added-value bundles and in some cases rudimentary social discovery environments.
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It's been nearly a year since DVD Jon made some noise about doubleTwist by promising to "liberate" iTunes purchases from their DRM, and while that's no longer particularly relevant in light of Apple's decision to go DRM-free, we're actually really digging this newly refocused public beta of the doubleTwist app, which promises to seamlessly manage all your devices from a single interface.
ENGADGET: DVD Jon's DoubleTwist device-management software enters public beta
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Of course this doesn't mean you'll actually be able to use this IP interface, but there's no reason to believe that the DRM used to lock down the content will ever be supported by anything that you'd actually want to consume content on.
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Likewise, including anti-used games DRM in the machine would make no sense for Sony.
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Doesn't sound like they're going to get anywhere close to what we want namely, cheap downloads that are easy to move around but CNET reports that Arrieta did say that they're going digitize their top 500 films and then distribute them both online and on flash memory cards (Memory Sticks, no doubt) for watching on your cellphone (expect there to be tons of DRM involved, natch).
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Thanking Steve Jobs for his Thoughts on Music isn't exactly how we'd expected a letter to start by Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision, the original DRM company whose fair use crippling technology dates back all the way to 1984 (no joke).
ENGADGET: Macrovision, the original DRM company, replies in open letter to Jobs