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The music industry Tuesday took its first step toward securing control over unchecked copying of digital music. The Secure Digital Music Initiative or SDMI -- a consortium of more than 110 companies from the music and computer industries -- released the initial version of its requirements for portable digital music players. Last week, an SDMI committee gave the thumbs up to the technical specifications.
Plans to hard-wire copy protection into popular digital music and video devices are being shelved as the consumer-electronics industry grapples interminably with antipiracy policies, standards and consumer rights.
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