Secure Digital Music Initiative

Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, composed of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, as well as Authors, Composers and Publishers Right holders (represented by CISAC and BIEM representatives, mainly from SGAE/SDAE, GEMA, SACEM/SDRM, MCPS/PRS, ASCAP, BMI, SODRAC), ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology and rights management systems specifications that will protect once developed and installed, the playing, storing, distributing and performing of digital music.