The “Fritz” Hollings bill and copy-protected CD’s may be the latest attempts by the RIAA to stop piracy but they were no means the first. 4 years ago, almost to the day, the SDMI was founded, it was supposed to be just the medicine to marginalize the Napster phenomenon. Soon, there would be SDMI protected CDs and SDMI digital music downloads playing only on SDMI-compliant devices. This never happened. It failed and failed badly. Yahoo! news has a look back on the 4 years of SDMI here.
This could be a good sign for future, are all RIAA attempts to stop piracy doomed?
