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[neilbolton]

Howdy,

I've read that post and do not come to the same conclusion as you. The problem they see in Sony's music player is that it only supports Sony DRM protected files, but does not support MP3s. MP3 files are not protected by any DRM.

MediaMax relies on Windows Media DRM (a proprietary DRM) to protect the music once it is downloaded to a PC and also needs Windows Media DRM to protect those files if moved to another device. If the files were in MP3 format, they could not be protected if moved to another device, since there is no DRM for MP3. In fact I'm sure I read in a PR recently that MediaMax could also produce Sony DRM files with V5 and on-the-fly. The pressure on Apple is to allow MediaMax to produce Apple protected DRM files.

All of these are proprietary DRMs and MediaMax can only function if the downloaded files are in one of these formats. To allow MP3 files to be downloaded or created on-the-fly, would create a gaping hole in our protection.