


SDMI Gets a New Name 13
An Anonymous Coward writes: "EETimes is reporting that a new group, the Digital Media Device Association (DMDA), is looking to pick up where SDMI left off. 'The group intends to address interoperability and content-protection issues for digital audio devices that were left unresolved when the Secure Digital Music Initiative ceased activities last year.' Some ideas just won't die."
DMDA (Score:1)
SATAN (Score:5, Funny)
"Congress today passed legislation that will require SATAN be a part of all new PCs"
"Dude, I just got SATAN so I can listen to N'Sync"
May be in response to Hollings' directive? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:May be in response to Hollings' directive? (Score:1)
-Sou|cuttr
Convenient name (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Convenient name (Score:3, Funny)
(If you don't know what DVDA is, watch Orgazmo)
Re:Convenient name (Score:2)
First a law - DMCA - to render fair use impotent.
Then a hardware standard - DMDA - to make fair use impossible.
Then an agency - DMEA - because fair use will no longer be illegal.
Re:Convenient name (Score:2)
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>Then a hardware standard - DMDA - to make fair use impossible.
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>Then an agency - DMEA - because fair use will no longer be illegal.
Erm, because fair use will no longer be legal. Serves me right for not previewing before I post.
Not that it matters - by the time the DMDA comes out, I'll have enough noncompliant hardware grandfathered to last me a lifetime. And if the hardware isn't grandfathered, I'll move to a saner jurisdiction.
To be followed by SADD (Score:4, Funny)
The Secure Audio Detention Device will consist of a special earplug that decrypts the audio content, and plays it back at a low volume, to ensure that only a single licensed listener can hear it.
A body-temperature sensor and an earwax-detector will both ensure that the device is not used outside of the ear canal, where illegal signal capture might take place.
The chemical signature of the user's earwax will also be monitored, to ensure that the device is not being shared by multiple users, in violation of the License Agreement.
Re:To be followed by SADD (Score:1)
Biggest laugh: This technology "encourages competition and allows consumers greater freedom of choice."
DMDA? Sounds alot like DVDA (Score:2, Funny)
For the unenlightened amongst us, DVDA stands for Doube-Vaginal Double-Anal penetration. Which, fittingly enough is what the RIAA and her member companies want to do to us with DMDA. DMDA could be Double-Mouth Double-Anal
Confusing.... (Score:1)
Anyway, assuming we're talking about the same beast in both cases, this passage:
(bold letters are mine)
This doesn't strike me as a 100% Bad Thing.
First because there is no way a computer can be described as a "portable" nor as a "networked" audio device. Sure it can be used as one, but it would be unreasonable to describe it as such since plenty of computers are neither portable nor networked.
Second, they implicitly state that piracy/sucking up to the record companies is not their priority. If you read the rest of the two articles, the accent is by far and away on interoperability.
So if there's really a need for an association to get involved with this sort of thing, this one seems to have as a good a perspective as you could hope for on the matter.
Or am I just being naive?
At least it sounds better (Score:1)