The Feature on DRM for handset vendors: "...they would be paying an extra dollar to make their own handsets less valuable to customers"
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Being in the business of selling mobile content, we've noticed that the newer Samsungs (E500, etc) have a built-in, automatic and stupid DRM. If you download an image from a WAP site, you can't then send it to anyone as a picture message. That'd be great... if it wasn't for the fact that WAP downloads are exactly how you *sell* images that are designed to be sent as picture messages.
We've had at least one customer take him Samsung back after finding out what the problem was.
Posted by: Ben | March 03, 2005 at 05:29 PM