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“The goal is to allow purchased video content to play seamlessly on any device or screen that the buyer owns and to allow access to a “virtual library” of purchased content accessible from anywhere on the ‘Net.” — Mitch Singer, CTO of Sony Pictures, via ars.

Wait, what? I thought you told us DRM would allow all this and more. It would keep us safe and enable all manner of online content. The industry is only now just starting to think about online content distribution?

Mark the date in your calendars, this is the date the industry admits it was a) entirely wrong about DRM, and b) is seeing writing on the wall (perhaps truly for the first time) for physical distribution.