Apple turns down invite to join NBC’s DRM clique
Not that this will come as a particularly big surprise, considering NBC’s harsh falling out with Apple recently, but Apple doesn’t want to go play in the sandbox with NBC and its bully friends AT&T, Microsoft, Sandisk and Phillips; those select few have united against filesharing in a sort of DRM alliance, but Apple won’t have any part in it.
Apple declined to participate with NBC and the other anti-sharing cronies in research as to preventive methods for solving file sharing on devices like iPods, according to Financial Times. Â That might have something to do with the fact that Apple has a pretty solid setup as it is against piracy right now, and really doesn’t need to swap stories with other companies who could probably only benefit from working with Apple.
Even if that isn’t the case, those companies have announced the initiative at the CES, Â with the VP of NBC Universal complaining that p2p traffic is “overwhelming” and unacceptable. Â AT&T joined in the gripe-a-thon by chiming in that p2p traffic is a real burden on its network.
All of those companies would do well to realize that those who participate in underground p2p sharing can just get their wares from companies and ISPs that aren’t buying into the filth that is the infringement on consumer rights. Â Apple, bless his Steveness, has actually been moving against DRM restriction, because consumers deserve the product they download in its entirety; that is most likely why Apple won’t participate in more restrictive DRM research.Â
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