Fergie's Tech Blog

Google's DRM: Now, The Bad News

Mike Masnick, over at techdirt.com, writes:

When we called attention yesterday to the news that Google was apparently launching its own proprietary copy protection, we dinged AP and Reuters for completely ignoring it in their reports. At least for the AP, the reason they didn't mention it was because it was under embargo, and that embargo is now over, since Larry Page is on stage in Las Vegas talking about it.

Unfortunately, Google's copy protection scheme sounds just as bad as we feared. It is their very own, and it will limit what you can do with the video significantly. You can't transfer the video to mobile devices.

posted by Fergie @ 1/06/2006 05:34:00 PM