Both SDMI and Liquid Audio have been cracked(that's what I read on
Slashdot), so it's definitely not "Secure"

-Bob

At 01:00 PM 9/1/99 +1000, you wrote:
>SDMI is a supposedly secure Digital Music format based on MP3. I am not sure
>of technical details but I gather it'll be a key encoded file system. i.e.
>Every MP3 Player has it's own key, when you buy a track in SDMI format it is
>encoded for your key only, hence it is a one file for one player sort of a
>deal. The actual encoding is still MP3 I gather they're basically PGPing the
>MP3 file.
>
>Not sure if it's taking off, winamp supports it. I heard that the record
>labels that came up with it were trying to force diamond (and others) to
>support it as well AND to allow a system whereby MP3 support could be
>disabled either at a set date or when it recieves a certain signal (whioch
>you'd get when downloading tracks to it I assume). Don't know where that
>went, last I heard most people in the scene were still ROFL.
>
>Tom.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Wagner Lipnharski <wagnerl@EARTHLINK.NET>
>To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 10:57 PM
>Subject: [OT] New Digital Audio specs? SDMI? MP3?
>
>
>> Just received from Texas Instruments,
>> what a heck is this SDMI specification?
>> anybody knows something about it?
>