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              | Date: 2000-10-13 
 
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 Wie Salon Magazine berichtet, wurde das von der Musikindustrie
 favorisierte Muik-Wasserzeichen System, die so genannte "Secure
 digital Music Initiative" einem Crack zugeführt. Was dieser zu
 bedeuten hat, ist noch nicht ganz sicher.
 
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 | 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.
 
 The hacking contest, which invited the general Net population to
 break the recording industry's watermarking system and win
 $10,000, ended Sunday; this week, SDMI members are meeting in
 Los Angeles to discuss the results. Although a core group of
 participants (including members of the Recording Industry
 Association of America) who coordinated the testing process are
 aware of the contest results, the larger SDMI consortium has yet to
 be informed.
 
 The key issue is whether the breaks are meaningful or not -- in other
 words, could any hacker repeat the breaks, and is the quality of the
 music preserved even when the watermark is scrubbed out?
 According to one insider, all these hacks were, in fact, technically
 "solid." The hacker boycott of SDMI organized by members of the
 programming community who were suspicious of what they saw as
 an attempt to coopt their labor in the service of a corrupt industry has
 turned out to be effectively irrelevant.
 
 According to one witness attending the SDMI conference, recording
 industry members held an emergency meeting at 6 a.m. PDT
 Thursday to discuss the results. SDMI members and the press will
 likely be informed Friday, several sources said, although most
 speculated that the record industry would try to downplay the results.
 
 Voll Text
 <http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/12/sdmi_hacked/index.html?
 CP=SAL&DN=660>
 
 
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 published on: 2000-10-13
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