Re: hacksdmi?

[Damian Menscher <menscher () uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Ian Stoba wrote:

> My own take is that if any type of SDMI type initiative is going to
> be successful, the watermarking will need to be outside the audio
> stream. For example, bands could release MP3s encrypted with their
> private keys. The files could be freely distributed, but for
> playback you would need to purchase the decryption key from a CA. In
> the case of a service like Napster, they would just need to check
> that they were distributing the encrypted files only.

That would just shift people from trading MP3s to trading decryption
keys.  I don't see how this helps (other than to make Napster more
suable, I guess).

Damian Menscher
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