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To: gqmobile who wrote (11253)	2/25/2000 10:12:00 AM
From: Jeffrey D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:01:13 GMT ZDNet Germany New Digital Audio Player can deal with MP3, WMA or other formats Creative Labs Europe Thursday announced its Digital Audio Player II MG, which will go on sale by the middle of this year. The device uses a 64 MB flash card (expandable to 128 MB) and plays MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) data. The company has installed codec-agnostic firmware designed to support future music standards such as SDMI 2.0. The II MG is also equipped with a radio receiver and USB-port docking station. "Creative's player-range is not only attractive in design and ease-of-use but above all generates fantastic sound," said Creative's head of marketing for central Europe, Murat šnol, during the presentation of the device. Also presented at CeBIT Thursday, was Creative's new jukebox player. Storage and playback capacities can reach over 2,600 hours of sub-CD quality sound or approximately 120 hours of CD quality sound. The device is the size of a portable CD player and offers 6GB of internal storage space. The two new products from Creative's PDE family are said to be available from the second quarter 2000. Prices have not yet been determined. Translation by Sophie Handrick

To: gqmobile who wrote (11253)	2/25/2000 11:34:00 AM
From: Bob C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

Seeing that your a security professional, I am interested in hearing your opinions as to what SDMI seems to be shooting for in watermarking the music content. From what I understand, this is the key to opening the flow of downloadable content. Without this security in place, the industry will not release their inventories and nothing will happen. Do you believe it is possible to make pirating traceable to the source?

To: gqmobile who wrote (11253)	2/25/2000 6:21:00 PM
From: cAPSLOCK	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18366

But I'm not sure if this makes the Watermarking Industry "all BS". Industry will always try to protect their intellectual property, despite the fact that their locks can be broken. I'm sure you lock the door to your house when you leave despite the fact that tons of people can pick it with ease... Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that I believed that it was all BS. The part I was agreeing with was the: Simply remove the watermark from content and voila' free content. part. Not the watermarking is BS part. The majority of users will not defeat the watermark, just as the majority of users will not decode DVDs. BTW if the industry is smart they will use something stronger than the 40bit weakness that the DVD folks used. If they were to use encryption on the 128bit order it will make it more difficult to break. But still not impossible. All you need to get in any locked door is the right keys. regards, cAPSLOCK