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To: Agenda who wrote (1182)	2/21/1998 8:37:00 AM
From: Semyon Kuretsky	Respond to of 11417

Friday February 20 10:08 AM EST Intel, Sony, Japanese Firms In Anti-piracy Pact LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Five computer and electronics companies said Thursday they had joined forces to deploy technology to protect digital movies and music from being illegally copied by consumers. In a breakthrough for the entertainment industry, Intel, Sony, Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba announced a joint encryption standard aimed at protecting Hollywood's most valuable content. The proposed encryption technology would be transparent. In other words, it would have no effect on television sets, personal computers, set-top boxes, digital VCRs and digital video disk (DVD) players in people's homes, the companies said. The announcement was welcomed by members of the entertainment industry, which has been concerned about the threat of piracy of digitally distributed material. "Developing the ability to protect digital content in transit is a very important step in delivering the highest quality in picture and sound to the consumer," said Chris Cookson, executive vice president of Warner Bros.

To: Agenda who wrote (1182)	2/21/1998 9:07:00 AM
From: Marty Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

The San Fran thing.. The article doesn't mention us. But we can always dream. Yes! We're the little "secret" piece of hardware here! The big boys are just keeping us behind the veil so to speak....whatever. IBM mention our name? Not much. Big Pig is too arrogant; keeping us under wraps - so precious. Oh well, they may not love us but that's alright. We'll just hang out here with Old Deep Pockets for a little while like half pound of cocaine and a sixteen year old girl... The S.F. article's concerns might concern Wave's technology but the article is not about Wave. It's more related to the issue of encryption standards, privacy, politics. Of course, I know what's going through your guys' heads. We end up being "the" standard and everybody has to kiss our... ya! Saw something about some stupid IPO called Double Click - another entry into the e-commerce business. The company hasn't turned a dime and yet it went from 17 to about 25 or there abouts in its first day of trading. Life ain't fair! We'll get even, I swear! Your friend, Marty