And another try to protect media from being widely spread. This time two big players in the market have developed seperate languages to prevent us from copying stuff. XMCL is developed by RealNetworks and XRML by Microsoft.
by industry giants Bertelsmann, IBM, and Sony, RealNetworks intends to explore all avenues the technology can traverse. Real Chief Operating Officer Larry Jacobson, told the Associated Press Wednesday, "Eventually, RealNetworks hopes the technology will be go beyond computers to television and virtually any other type of digital media. The potential for these initiatives are just so enormous." |
Support for the technology will soon be put to the test, as several other companies already endorse an opposing standard. Hewlett-Packard, Adobe, and Microsoft have reached an agreement on XRML, or extensible rights markup language. Microsoft has been including XRML support in its Windows Media Player software, requesting a flat usage fee from companies. Real will take a slightly different approach and instead ask for a percentage of each transaction.
Source: Betanews.com
