Hi !

Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>
> Herbert Graf wrote:
> >
> > > SDMI is a supposedly secure Digital Music format based on MP3. I
> > > am not sure
...
> >      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
>

I am not sure if it is true for that particular encoding system, but
usually
they also include a watermark: A serial number unique for every customer
encoded in non-audiable frequencies.
So you can crack the encoding and produce a free format sound file or
even
record the music on your tape deck, but they can still tell you who has
bought that copy.


> ... 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".
>

Exactly as there are no non-breakable doors, read-protected Micro-
controllers and chip cards, only time and costs are different.

> 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.

I have read an article about german radio stations: most of them are
playing songs from the hard disk and IIRC it was MP3 with 196 kbps.
It was even enough for decoding-cutting-and- re-encoding some times
without noticeable quality losses.

...

> 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.

Here in Berlin there is a free Newspaper you can get at the Underground
stations. Completely paid by ads.


Just my 2 cents ...


St.