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