That's a fair question but I'm not sure I'm the right person to answer 
it since I'm on one of the technical teams and somewhat remote from the 
DRM activities here at RN.  I recommend a new post to the 
*discuss at open.helixcommunity.org* where you'll find a few more business 
folks closer to issue.

thx, Steve

Marek wrote:

> First, thanks for your answer :)
>
> On 11/3/2003 7:14 AM, Steve McMillen wrote:
>
>> There are DRM solutions for RealMedia format but that does not 
>> integrate directly into Producer at this time and is only available 
>> through RealNetworks retail products.
>
>
> What with future ? - does Helix Community schedule to extend free 
> producer in DRM area ?
>
>> You can contact an RN sales person through this website if you want 
>> more information:
>> http://www.realnetworks.com/products/drm/index.html
>
>
> I understand RealNetworks is forerunner of video streaming, but when 
> Microsoft share DRM SDK "for free" 
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/winmedia.asp) 
> is it not good idea to preapre free simple/basic version of Helix DRM ?
>