Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Aug 2005 18:30 UTC
Sun Microsystems, weighing in on the fractious issue of protecting copyrighted digital content, on Sunday announced a project it calls the Open Media Commons initiative aimed at creating an open-source, royalty-free digital-rights management standard.
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Yeah, taken on it's own I could see them having issues with it, but if you have a situation where big name vendors like Red Hat were to have "blessed" (read signed) versions of a media player that works with a TPM, then only those official versions would be able to access the media without a heck of a lot of work.