On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:38:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
