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[FYI] Microsoft wins new friends as anti-piracy superhero
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:25:30 +0100
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Microsoft wins new friends as anti-piracy superhero
By John Borland, Special to ZDNet
February 1, 2001 3:50 PM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2681422,00.html
Without much fanfare, Microsoft has captured a leading spot in the
content-protection business, a role that is fostering closer
relationships between the software giant and music labels and movie
studios.
The last several months have seen most of the major music labels
release songs in Microsoft's Windows Media format, which has built-in
copy protection, or DRM (digital rights management) technology. Most
of the labels are quick to say they are technology agnostics, but in
a few cases their commercial download services are using exclusively
Microsoft technology.
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