Windows Phone Thoughts: Microsoft to protect Disney films

"Disney has joined forces with Microsoft to start selling its movies over the net later this year. The venerable animation studio has signed up to use Microsoft software to stop its films being pirated. The deal reflects Microsoft desire to establish a foothold in the home entertainment market. For its part, Disney sees the potential for selling movies via the net but it is also worried about the potential for its creations to be pirated once it makes them available for download."

Here's the important part:

"The system being developed should allow buyers of the Disney films a limited ability to move the movies between PCs and media players."

One would hope that "media players" would include any Windows Media player equipped with DRM security, so I'd hope to see the Pocket PC included in this group. We'll see!