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Wednesday, 31 August 2005 |
Microsoft's music DRM gets
setback
Inquirer -
Harrow,Middlesex,UK
THE VOLISH BEAST of Redmond's attempts to dominate mobile DRM received a
setback after the Japanese manufacturer of the Rio MP3 player, announced its
intention to cease production.
D&M Holdings, which is behind the Denon and Marantz audio brands said it would
stop making the Rio by October [2005]. That just leaves Creative Technology with
its Zen players as the major flagship for Windows based players.
The difficulties faced by consumers wanting to download music to a device other
than Apple's iPod were highlighted recently by the INQ.
We discovered that there were almost no independent sites available to
youngsters who owned an MP3 capable handset but no PC.
If their mobile network operator's portal didn't carry music from their
favourite bands, they were stuffed. This is particularly true for 3 which
operates a 'walled garden' in the UK. So outside sites are simply accessible.
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