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DRM Shortens Battery Life by 25%

By Alexander Grundner | March 16th, 2006 Interest Level: SMOKING HOT


microsoft playsforsure logoI’m not a social scientist, but I think it’s funny how people who have a disdain for certain products, services, or people look for every conceivable way to discredit them (sometimes justly). Case in point: Tests reveal DRM shortens battery life by 25% in portable music players (via Digg, CD Freaks). The bottom line is that DRM-wrapped digital media takes up more CPU horsepower to playback because the player needs to decrypt files on the fly. Makes sense… and adds another reason to people’s list of why “DRM is evil.”

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Alexander Grundner is the Editor & Publisher of eHomeUpgrade. He has been following "Digital Home" developments since 2003. He's also a fan of cross-platform, open development software and industry standards related to media, networking, and the web. You can catch his daily tech musings on Twitter: @agrundner.
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  • No doubt that decryption requires more MIPS, the worst part is that WMA itself already requires more MIPS to decode. The more complex your compression/encryption is, the more instructions it will take to decode, the less battery life you get.
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