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[FYI] SDMI cracked.



http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/12/sdmi_hacked/index.html

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SDMI cracked! 

Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection 
system.  

By Janelle Brown  

Oct. 12, 2000 | Watch out -- recording industry executives are about 
to start running for cover. All of the Secure Digital Music 
Initiative's watermarks -- its much ballyhooed music protection 
scheme -- have been broken. A spokesperson for SDMI has denied the 
reports, but according to three off-the-record sources, the results 
of the Hack SDMI contest are in and not one single watermark resisted 
attack.  

[...]

Is there an alternate solution, though? Many SDMI members think there 
isn't one -- and that this could mean that SDMI will now implode for 
lack of any plausible ideas for how to meet the recording industry's 
demands for secure music.  

[...]

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