On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:38:50PM +0100, email.listen@googlemail.com wrote:
I would like to know if there are contracts between hardware manufacturers and license giving companies which ban all non drm aware formats. There have been such contracts in the past between MS and harware vendors which only allowed them to use MS-OS's if they want to have OEM-Versions of MS-$foo.
There will most certainly be contracts. If Company A wants to use the DRM from comapny B, they will sign a contract. I can imagine that these are in some way different as they might be negotiable per album, per artist or per whatever. Perhaps they sign a excusive contract as to not have a different DRM from another company, but as there is no monopoly on DRM this is a different issue then what M$ did. What we need to do is to think how, not if, we are going to deal with this. houghi -- When I said "we", officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.