Herbert Graf 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.
>
>      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

... some chinese proverb;  "Show me a rock, I will show you a way to get
over it".

... some friend's proverb; "The same human inteligence that creates a
way to lock a door, is also used to unlock it".

I heard that some FM radio "live shows" just use thousands of digitized
musics stored in hard disks, so when a phone caller request a music, it
is a matter of 4 seconds to start to play it. The big part of this 4
seconds is to type few keys to locate the song in the computer selection
database. I can see much less space to store and organize all those
thousands of CD's they should have in the studio, and much less cost to
keep the song library.
An actual 20GB hard disk can store aprox 2800 MP3 compressed songs.  I
really don't know if what we are hearing in FM is a real 44ksps CD
quality or MP3 decompression. I can be getting old and my hearing can be
malfunctioning, but I can't notice so much difference (CD x MP3) in
quality when listening a CD playing at my (good) computer sound
speakers, or the same music after MP3 compression.

Wall Mart (and some other stores) use a system in the electronic/sound
department, that you just pass any CD UPC-A label under a scanner
installed in a sound device (with earphones) and it plays a piece of few
songs from that particular CD... I can't see a way to do that other than
digitized songs stored in hard disk (MP3 or other).

Technology will always be used to make human life easier or better (as
much as possible), and by the same reason it also makes some people lose
money.  This people will always try to protect their interest, sometimes
without any success.  For example, fight to keep alive VHS tape system
is a lost battle, what about 3.5 diskettes?, what about Telex or Fax
machines?  In just 3 years I reduced my fax usage from 10 to 20 a day to
absolute zero!

The age of "selling songs" just born when it was clear that it was
difficult to copy those old vinyl disks, with the adventure of the
cassete tape it suffered a big shake, since everyone could copy a song,
but even so it made M.Jackson millionaire, along of many others.

I don't care to listen to free MP3 music if it carries some text of
advertisement banners at my computer screen during the playback. This is
the new tendencies of the Internet products, and Internet is showing
lots of new tendencies of what would be our technology tomorrow's life.

After a long discussion with a customer that wanted to create a
information website (about laws) where the visitor needs to pay for a
one-day access, we decided the site should be free, and the revenue will
come from selling banner space for lawyers and related companies to
advertise.  When you buy a newspaper for $1.00 you are poorly paying the
half of the recycled paper costs. All the people involved, equipment,
space, distribution, and everything else is being paid by the
advertisements.