> 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.

     You know, all this secure music stuff always makes me laugh because so
far there is one universal solution to beating it: use a sound driver that
writes the raw data to your hard drive. I have seen one of these drivers
(haven't used it) and I would suspect that writing one would not be that
difficult. True you would need alot of HD space for this sort of idea, but
most people have that already. Am I wrong in this idea? Has this method been
guarded against somehow? Just curious, TTYL