Posted Tuesday 10th April 2007 14:11 GMT

But suppose they manage to sniff a key for a hardware player from a major manufacturer.

Would they dare revoke the licence forcing all owners to bring in their players for a software update?

Opinion

David McLeman

My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords

Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps

Will they have to drag him back like last time?

Are you getting what you want?

Playing the SLA long game

More than just middlemen...

Applications must work for the cloud to float

How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust