he world’s four biggest consumer electronics companies have agreed to start using a common method to protect digital music and video against piracy and illegal copying, they said on Thursday.”
Japan’s Sony Corp and Panasonic-brand owner Matsushita Electric Industrial, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Dutch Philips Electronics formed the alliance because they want buyers of their products to watch or listen to “appropriately licensed video and music on any device, independent of how they originally obtained that content,” they said in a joint statement.
They see the current crop of keeping DRM formats as problems for their business
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