Sun has announced it's Open Standards DRM initiative called DReaM, or "DRM/everywhere available."

This is interesting. Those who know me or who have read this blog, know I am not fan of DRM in any of it's forms, but an open source project that is widely adopted and freely available to any publisher would counter my biggest criticism of DRM in music:
DRM is used as protection and control of distribution of music by major labels. Or better stated from an anonymous quote in a survey we conducted: "DRM is being used as a toll booth along a nonexistent highway."

I'm still not sold on the necessity of DRM yet, but Chris Anderson previously had pointed out the need for (desire for?) DRM in the head of the long tail, I did not agree with him at the time, and still do not, but I may bend if DRM can be shown not to interfere, or restrict anyones access to distribution of their content. This initiative by Sun may be just that.