Alliance Unveils DRM 2.0Alliance Unveils DRM 2.0

LAS VEGAS -- The Open Mobile Alliance, an international specifications setting body, announces the public availability of its DRM Version 2.0 Service Enabler as an Approved Enabler Release. Open Mobile Alliance's Board of Directors recently accepted the new standard after ten months of thorough interoperability testing across the mobile, consumer electronics (CE) and IT industries. DRM 2.0's arrival demonstrates Open Mobile Alliance's commitment to develop and test a trusted standard for the interoperable distribution of premium content.

Open Mobile Alliance DRM 1.0 became available as an Approved Enabler Release in September 2004 and is already deployed in over 400 handset types world wide. For Open Mobile Alliance DRM 2.0, 66 of the Open Mobile Alliance's nearly 400 member companies contributed to the specification. One of the significant capabilities of Open Mobile Alliance's new and improved DRM will be to extend the specification to both IT and CE products and devices. As an example, Open Mobile Alliance DRM 2.0 will allow mobile operators to extend billing capabilities beyond the mobile phone.

"Open Mobile Alliance has established its crucial role in the interoperability of products and services in the wireless world, in spite of industry and media focus on IPR issues associated with digital rights and other technologies," says Jari Alvinen, Chairman of the Board of the Open Mobile Alliance. "Now, consumers are demanding premium content wherever they are and however they are connected. Open Mobile Alliance DRM 2.0 offers content providers, IT and consumer electronics vendors, mobile operators and vendors a DRM solution that allows secure content exchange in an interoperable manner. This interoperability is the key to drive the successful convergence of the mobile, CE and IT industries. Open Mobile Alliance's DRM 2.0 provides a truly dynamic solution for exchanging high quality content to any device on any network."

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)