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Firms Partner to Standardize Digital Rights Management

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 4, 2004 - 3:16am.
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- A group of seven entertainment, technology and consumer electronics firms have announced the formation of a consortium that will promote interoperability between digital rights management technologies used in the consumer media market. The Coral Consortium -- whose members include HP, Intertrust, Philips, Matsushita, Samsung, Sony and Fox -- will work to create a common technology framework for content, device and service providers, regardless of which digital rights management technologies they use. "The classic approach to solving the interoperability problem is to either use a single proprietary platform for media distribution, or to standardize a common content protection and management technology," said Coral Consortium president Jack Lacy. "Consumers typically just want to buy, play, and use content in an intuitive manner and do not want to dwell on differences between esoteric technology features. Coral aims to provide them with such functionality and ease of use."
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-drm4oct04,1,2961775.story
http://www.coral-interop.org 

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