Future Proofing the System

I've given this a lot of thought over the last few years, and the DRM container I'm going to pursue is one built on the Matroska container system.

The Matroska container system is currently completely cross-platform. It supports Linux, Mac, and Windows machines, as well as PDAs and cellphones. It's also open source, so ensuring complete cross-platform compatibility would be much easier.

I've been talking to a couple different agencies about the backbone database required to maintain this consumer incentive program for this file system, which is currently the patented property of Microsoft and Shared Media Licensing Inc. Although reverse engineering this database shouldn't be too difficult, it may prove costly unless more support shows up from the Free Software community.