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RCR Wireless News, April, 2005
The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system.
The GSM Association blasted royalties for the technology proposed earlier this year by the MPEG Licensing Authority for anti-piracy software developed by the Open Mobile Alliance. MPEG LA's plan called for phone manufacturers to pay $1 per device and for operators to pay a percentage of every consumer download to license the software.
The industry association claims more than 300 carriers and regulatory bodies. MPEG LA has pooled patents owned by DRM companies InterTrust and ContentGuard, as well as consumer electronics firms Sony Corp., Matsushita...
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