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BetaDot: Challenges For Cross-Platform Content Delivery

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2005

[ Thanks to Joey for
this link. ]

“With the recent future seeing of Bill Gates, Apple’s new Video
iPod, MTV’s partnership with Microsoft to serve music videos to
Xbox users, and all the other major digital media start-ups going
on lately problems are arising with cross-platform content
delivery.

“By that, I mean Windows, Mac OS and Linux, however, you can
play cell phones and other electronics in to the problem as well.
Most of these new platforms require some form of DRM to ‘protect’
the content developers this DRM is usually implemented at software
level, although, we are expanding in to hardware level DRM with
software hooks. Software means compatibility issues, does this mean
us Linux users are going to be left hanging…?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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