DECE to save your content when your provider shutters their doors?

At CES, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) was pitched as a global digital rights locker for your media. Purchase media and play it back on any compatible player. It sounds like Adobe Digital Editions, but on a grander scale, with the authorization server not run by the company that sells the media, and supporting more than just books - music, video and more!

Apparently there are some heavy hitting studios, retailers and service providers joining forces here, including: Best Buy, Comcast, Sony Pictures, Cox Communications, Toshiba, Lilberty Global Inc., Hewlett-Packard, NBC Universal and Fox Entertainment. No word if the inclusion of Sony Pictures guarantees that Sony devices are a part of this and mums the word from Apple, Barnes and Noble, Amazon and other eBook players.

Check out the full article at Internet Evolution. Watch out for accuracy, however, given this paragraph:

No, "buy once, play anywhere" is anything but the mantra of the e-book industry. Firstly, content from the Sony E-reader or Barnes and Noble's Nook or Amazon's Kindle doesn't generally work on rival devices or platforms. Secondly, the industry has failed to bundle analog and digital book rights together, thereby forcing consumers to buy the same product twice if they want to own both the digital and analog versions of the book.

As we already know, Sony books sure do play back on nook's and several other ADE compatible devices.