universal drm – the nemo wrapper
the register is carrying a story from faultline on something called the networked environment for media orchestration (nemo), which hopes to be a universal drm for the new internetworked world.
No DRM system can be made to communicate if it doesn’t want to, but if Microsoft has already paid much of its $440m in licensing fees to participate and if Sony takes the lead by letting its studios implement a Nemo system and if both Sony and Philips incorporate these agents onto consumer electronic equipment, we are going to have a new paradigm for content protection, with an irresistible powerbase and little resistance.
with the confidence from #1 positions for both the velvet revolver and beastie boys releases, i imagine there is even less resistance.