Rocky Mountain News's Brian Crecente discusses with Sony's struggle to find an indentity for the PSP and how DRM is holding up their Connect download service. From the article:
The UMD’s failure to launch and Sony’s lack of support for downloading
videos and music directly to the portable has become an increasing
annoyance to fans of the portable. Sony’s aware of the shortcomings.
“Absolutely — that is something we are addressing and I think it is a valid concern,” Koller said.
Koller says Sony is in the process of trying to determine how best to
deliver digital content, like music and movies, directly to the PSP.
But Sony — which also operates movie studios and music labels — has
always been hyper-diligent about protecting content from piracy, and
that issue remains the chief hang-up.
“A big issue for us has been the (Digital Rights Management) and how
we can secure that content to the Memory Stick,” Koller said. “The
studios and the labels don’t want their content floating around.”
They’re working on a system similar to what Apple has employed for its iTunes service.
Once the issue of DRM is figured out, Sony will have to determine how
best to make the content available to PSP owners, be it Sony’s own
online service, Connect, or a third-party service.
“That’s still something we are debating here,” he said. “We need to see how the Connect site works out.”
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Source: Rocky Mountain News