Microsoft’s Bluescreen TV Technology
Internetnews.com reports that Microsoft is getting involved in Television over IP. It has come to an agreement with Alcatel to combine Alcatel’s access and integration technologies with Microsoft’s IPTV software. I don’t particularly have any great respect for Microsoft as a software company but this could make the problems that RIAA and MPAA have with p2p downloading insignificant. When it comes to conditional access systems, Microsoft hasn’t clue zero.
Microsoft probably sees this a way of quitely infiltrating its Digital Rights Management systems into domestic equipment. However the interesting aspect is that IPTV may become a lot more important in the near future as it would provide a method of legitimising the distribution of movies and television programmes. The big problem is the fact that copyright areas still dominate the television and movie business.
Tags: Microsoft , IPTV , MPAA , RIAA , Conditional Access Systems, DRM
Written by John McCormac on February 23rd, 2005 with
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