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Nokia to support PlayReady

1 replies · 1,587 views · Started 06 August 2007

Another year, another DRM solution from Microsoft. Hey ho, you'd have thought they'd have learnt by now. Anyway, Nokia has just announced that it's building support for the new 'PlayReady' technology into the S60 platform. I guess more support is always better, but if I were you I'd stick to ripping purchased CDs to WMA or AAC, with no restrictions. The full press release is below...

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It does seem a bit odd that Microsoft keep coming up with these new DRM schemes.

The most shocking of all was when they said that their existing DRM would be incompatible with Zune devices. It's like Microsoft are going out of their way to annoy their existing userbase.