Apple had a strong hand in the formation last year of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance, an industry group that wants to create a blueprint for an open standard that would allow content developers to write for one format, instead of three or more as they now must do.

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The fingerprints are stored in a cryptic format on a standard PC, which he insists could not be reconstituted to create the actual print.

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