Very interesting....a footprint in the sand.

 Lucent deemed MP3 to be too “insecure” to be commercially viable and assumed it would never fly so long as the music industry had its way. So it teamed up with Texas Instruments and a company called e.Digital to develop a digital music player that would comply with the recording industry’s secure digital music initiative (SDMI). Neither SDMI nor Lucent’s device went anywhere.