Digital DRM-mobile and Open Source Digital Rights
Overdrive, the company serving up e-books for New York's public libraries drives across the country in a big Semi, uses a variety of DRM, primarily Windows Media. In Central Park on Sunday, a rep. told me "they are working on getting Windows Media DRM working on Macs." (wtf?)
Meanwhile, Sun Microsystems is working on DReaM, an OPEN SOURCE DRM scheme. While I feel dirty saying it, I think the notion of closed networks and DRM is really what is going to drive the digital economy over the next several years. This is really the technology that libraries should be adopting, since its impossible to ignore publisher's rights. That is, if you want to get more than Shakespeare from public libraries' digital catalogs. Besides, aren't public encryption schemes the best ones anyway?
--via [wired]
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