Let's count 1 year to map out the technology, 1 year to fab it, 1 year to
get a significant numer of these out there - that makes 3 (three) years.
By that time every single cellular phone on the planet will have a
built-in MP3 player, every PDA too, and those are where rights management
will be an issue. The phones management will be incompatible with the M$
stuff, half the PC software won't work (it comes from MS, a company not
known for technical excellence). the half of the PC rights management
software that works will have IIS-type *minor* security holes etc. Let
them waste their time and energy on this doomed enterprise- we have better
things to do.

Edmund

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:

> 
> If the Palladium abomination comes into existance you can count the hours
> before the MPAA or the RIAA or similar press for a law to make any consumer
> grade alternative illegal.
> 
> If they get the beach head, we're in trouble.
>