At 20:36 31/08/99 -0700, you wrote: >Both SDMI and Liquid Audio have been cracked(that's what I read on >Slashdot), so it's definitely not "Secure" > >-Bob > Give people with too much time on thier hands any hint that they may have to pay for something that they can freely obtain now, and someone will crack it. Pitty that they based it on MP3, else it may have had some chance (ROFL (Lots!)) Dennis >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 >>To: >>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? >> > >