Congress has been busy. Earlier this week the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property met concerning the oversight of digital music interoperability and availability . . . . why can’t Apple and Realnetworks just get along and if they can’t, should congress step in and make them get along?
It seems that the witnesses the committee heard were generally not in favor of congress setting standards for digitized music. Apple, who has a 75% market share of the digital download music business, declined to appear before the committee.
Read Chairman Lamar Smith’s opening comments here.
Witness statements can be found here. (Click on the name of a witness.)
Thursday, April 07, 2005
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For what purpose should music DRM schemes be compatible? Maybe the different networks like being incompatible. Maybe there are even technical advantages of one over the other (or is congress going to design a "superior" DRM scheme?).
Funny that congress wants to get involved in regulating compatibility in an unlimited resource but saw no reason to get involved in regulating compatibility in cellular communications.
Oh well, this just goes to show that congress can be the opposite of progress.
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