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To: Walter Morton who wrote (2841)	4/21/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Joe Copia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

All of the news releases have mentioned the quality of the sound and the speed of downloading, but nobody is mentioning the means of security that this portable device is suppose to offer. Perhaps they will explain that in the next few weeks. Walter, that is a very important item to leave out. Bright of you to catch that. Thank you for pointing that out. Joe PTG&LI !!!

To: Walter Morton who wrote (2841)	4/21/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: cAPSLOCK	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

Well.. I am guessing, but I am a Network admin by profession, and was an Audio Engineer at my last job, so this is an area I keep pretty updated in... They will include some sort of portable key based encryption system. So far the sorts of things people have proposed have to do with licensing music for players that contain a software or hardware code. In other words you buy a tune, and it will play on your players, but not your friends. The problem with this type of security is that without hardware you can never guarantee it will not be cracked. As a matter of fact I promise you it will be cracked within days if not hours of its release. ...Unless they base the security on the EDIG hardware. But then you will be limited to playing your music ONLY on this hardware. DSS technology uses similar encrypted key technology, but they utilize smartcards as a hardware key. Hackers have even learned ways around this, but it is MUCH more difficult. The thing that is going to make this all tricky is MP3 and other emerging free technologies. It sounds as if EPAC is being touted to have beter sonic quality than mp3, but that has been claimed before.. well have to wait, test and see. The good part is that the record companies are dying (literally) to have a viable technology in this zone, and need it soon. Someone will emerge the clear winner in the coming format war. MP3, EPAC, Microsoft's entry (they will have one...), or another yet known. It is quite an interesting arena... EDIG is surely on the cutting edge. cAPSLOCK