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Consortium To Standardize Digital Rights Management, Take On Apple

DRM is one thing, the digital format is another, but more important issue. As long as movies are available in a non-propriety good quality format, Apple will be happy to use their standard. That is, as long as microsoft can't embrace and extend it.

Apple Calls NBC's Digital Download Bluff

That's like mandating that all banks stop bank robberies.

iTunes Showdown: Apple vs. Content Owners

Concern for piracy and inability to bundle shows are lame excuses.
After all it's easiest to record tv shows and cutting the ads out into a format without any copy protection. As for bundling, do these people really think customers prefer to pay $10 to download 20 shows rather than paying $2 for the one they really want to watch? Sure we want something like what we get from cable or sattelite, where for $40 a month half the channels you get are shopping channels. I am sorry, but the kind of broadband we have here in the US is not ready for this.

iTunes Showdown: Apple vs. Content Owners

Concern for piracy and inability to bundle shows are lame excuses.
After all it's easiest to record tv shows and cutting the ads out into a format without any copy protection. As for bundling, do these people really think customers prefer to pay $10 to download 20 shows rather than paying $2 for the one they really want to watch? Sure we want something like what we get from cable or sattelite, where for $40 a month half the channels you get are shopping channels. I am sorry, but the kind of broadband we have here in the US is not ready for this.