Open Mobile Alliance is a DRM system for mobile phones that costs $1 per handset to implement. It's supposed to stop people from making unauthorized copies of the music on their phones (in other words, to make their phones work less well). Last year, 684 million phones were sold. At $1 per phone, that's $684 million in royalties for this value-destroying DRM which is supposed to support the digital music download market. The entire market for downloadable music last year was less than $684 million.
When you fight DRM for a living, it can seem hopeless. Then the greedy fools who make the stuff go and shoot themselves in the head with dumb crap like this and you realize that there is hope after all.
(Thanks, Fred!)
