It looks like Sony's new Key2Audio XS protection will get competition from Microsoft with their new "Windows Media Data Session Toolkit". Like the Key2Audio XS and the CDS200 protections Microsoft's solution allows the CD's to be played on a PC:
The PC layer, laid digitally on the same disc, can be modified by the content provider, so that they could prevent, for example, burning songs onto another CD, said David Fester, general manager, digital media entertainment for Microsoft. |
Universal Music EAUG.PA and EMI EMI.L , two of the biggest record labels in the world, "are very excited about this because it enables the industry to build a CD with their own protections built in," he said, speaking at the Midem music conference in southern France.
Microsoft has invested $500 million in digital rights management, or DRM, for music, Fester said.
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Source: Reuters
