Mobile and Telecom Operators demand cheaper Anti-Piracy Systems

Cheaper Software can result in amazingly cheap access to technology. Mobile and telecom operator understands this and have blamed a group of companies that they overcharge for essential anti-piracy systems for their devices leading to higher costing for the end consumer. Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) develops an open standard technology for these anti-piracy technologies but the technology costs a lot. This was expressed in a statement issued by the mobile operators last week.

They have in addition threatened that they would abandon this technology and develop cheaper Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. This might however lead to problems for the end consumers as their would be many standards floating around developed by different players in the market.

Mobile Operators have already complained about the royalty fee of $1 royalty per mobile device just to protect digital music and video against illegal copying. Reason being that they feel recovering so much money from the digital entertainment market is simply not possible. In addition, they have to pay a percentage of the price of a download. This adds to the costing for these Mobile Operators.

The technology developed by OMA happens to be the one accepted by all the major players in the telecom and mobile market. This ensures that the compatibility of content to the handsets remains leading to a more universally standardized market. Some other proprietary technologies exist in the form of Apple’s iTunes and Microsoft’s own standard.