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YEAY! COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for April 29, 2002 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FUTURE OF SECURE DIGITAL MUSIC INITIATIVE GRIM After four years working towards a goal of ending Internet music piracy, the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) has called it quits. SDMI was comprised of the record industry and some technology companies whose goal was to create a secure environment where music could be safely offered online via unbreakable code. The plans to digitally watermark audio files or wrap them in code only SDMI compliant players could recognize was over- whelmed by market forces. Music device makers who did not want to miss out on consumer demand and struggles amongst the major record labels contributed to the demise of the initiative. According to Jonathan Potter, director of the Digital Media Association, SDMI was the Recording Industry Association of America's attempt to "reverse physics... and it was an attempt to use the cloak of technology to really try to impose rules on the Internet and content owners." A new organization, the Digital Media Device Association plans to continue the work of SDMI by developing specifications for playing digital music on portable devices. [SOURCE: USA Today, AUTHOR: Associated Press] http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/29/sdmi.htm ................................. To find out, what address you were using, when joining MP3-Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/whocommie.html
