The Secure Digital Music Initiative unleashes its controversial digital music framework for the world to see. A finished spec it ain't. By Chris Oakes. The digital music company makes an impressive debut on the stock market. No matter that its technology isn't as popular as MP3.
Digital music is just too sexy for investors to pass up.
By Lindsey Arent. 8.Jul.99 SDMI executive director Leonardo Chiariglione defends the standard and explains how the music industry's initiative has been misunderstood. That's not SDMI's problem. MailZone's New MP3 Monitor 8.Jul.99 New software can block MP3 file attachments in corporate email and tell the difference between legal and illegal music files. By Joe Ashbrook Nickell.