Paid Content has a pair of interesting reports from the MidemNet conference in France including coverage of a DRM debate between representatives from the CEA, RIAA, and MPAA (the CEA response to RIAA's claim that it makes the recording industry look evil – "I don’t make you look evil – your lawsuits against old people around the country make you look evil."). Meanwhile, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser joins the call to drop DRM, though a cynic might note that Real held a somewhat different view in the Streambox case.
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January 21, 2007
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