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To: Ausdauer who wrote (18293)	1/18/2001 1:51:01 AM
From: Binx Bolling	Respond to of 60323

OLD News? GROUP SAYS IT BEAT MUSIC SECURITY BUT CAN'T REVEAL HOW Scientists from Princeton University, Rice University, and Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) last year cracked the new digital watermark technology developed by the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), an industry-wide effort to protect music files online. However, Princeton professor Edward W. Felten, who led the joint effort, recently said he cannot reveal how his team cracked the watermark because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. This law makes it a crime to reveal how to crack copyright-protected materials online. SDMI has already eliminated the joint Princeton, Rice, and PARC team from the open competition it held for cracking the watermarking technology, because the team would not participate in an attempt to judge the listenability of the cracked music files. Felten's team published an independent analysis that found that the file it cracked had no discernable difference in sound quality. Felten revealed that his team is consulting with its lawyers to determine what information it can contain in a report on its efforts. (New York Times, 15 January 2001)

To: Ausdauer who wrote (18293)	1/18/2001 3:33:29 AM
From: Steve Lee	Respond to of 60323

Don't scoff the competition Aus. This is an interesting product and I hope Sandisk comes up with a similar product for their formats. Your immobile phone comment is not valid. Of course it only has to be within 10 metres of the bluetooth device it is communicating with while the transfer is in progress. You can still take it out and make calls later. Sounds very desirable to me and gives mem stick an advantage.

To: Ausdauer who wrote (18293)	1/18/2001 2:58:45 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus, Sony aside, and for the sake of argument. It's four years from now. You have a digital camera with 1024 MB of embedded flash, and a Bluetooth chip. If you are local to your computer, you put your camera within 10 meters of your PC and the pictures are automatically downloaded to your hard drive. If you are on vacation, you send the pictures over your cell phone or hotel phone to your home PC, by pressing a button on your camera. Where does that leave SanDisk? John