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Microsoft rep says DRM can go too far...

... and advocates standards issued by a 3rd party.

Did you notice(?):
Martha Nalebuff, director of strategy and policy for the Windows client group at Microsoft, said the industry needs to find a standards-based middle ground between absolute uniformity and the current jungle of conflicting DRM schemes.

"You don't need the same level of protection for a national security document as a ringtone," Nalebuff said. "I think there's a need for DRM to be optimized for certain types of content, but I think it's gone way too far."

Nalebuff advocated Rights Expression Language (REL), a standard published by the International Standards Organization (ISO), as a good starting point that would give publishers a common framework for communicating their copy-protection intentions. "We've got to have tools that encourage each individual to start thinking about the things they want to protect, and ISO REL is the best way to express that," she said.

Thought I'd see something like this when Satan could skate straight from Cocytus to Dis...

Does anyone have any background information?

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