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To: Eric L who wrote (9978)	3/21/2001 9:56:28 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

re: Nokia Music Player HDR-1 with AAC & DRM in 310, 3330, 8210 and 8850 >> Nokia Music Player Implements Digital Rights Management Simon Buckingham Mobile Lifestreams 21 March 2001 "Nokia today announced a new mobile phone accessory, the digital Nokia Music Player HDR-1. With the Nokia Music Player, users will be able to listen to an integrated FM stereo radio and downloadable audio/music files, as well as use it as a handsfree kit for their phone. The stylishly designed device is compatible with the Nokia 3310, 3330, 8210 and 8850 phones. It will be available during the third quarter, 2001." "The music formats supported by the Nokia Music Player are AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), secured with InterTrust digital rights management technology, and MP3. AAC is a high quality audio coding technology and the solution of choice for many broadcast and electronic music distribution applications. It is supported by a growing number of hardware and software manufacturers." This is the first product deliverable from Nokia's acquisition of 20% of InterTrust announced in December 2000. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a critical enabler for multimedia content because content creators and copyright owners do not want their content to be downloaded once and distributed repeatedly. DRM technologies allow copyright control and playback and forwarding and recording to be limited. Provided its implementation is reasonable such that DRM formats and technologies are standardized and open to a wide range of content creators, DRM should enable better business models for 3G. Currently, for example, in some cases, Nokia picture messages can be forwarded phone to phone without the content creator and copyright owner being able to limit that. Ringtones services similarly should require copyright fees to be paid back to the artists, but this cannot be controlled and is not therefore always implemented. DRM should enable service access to be controlled to paying users, enabling revenues from multimedia entertainment services to be maximized. Expect to see Digital Rights Management technologies implemented not only in accessories such as the Nokia Music Player- but also in every 3G phone itself. << - Eric -