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...on a way to bar portable music players from playing pirated digital music files. The group, which has been searching for that solution for more than 17 months, won't reconvene until September. With the major record labels and their software partners pursuing their own strategies, the once-ballyhooed SDMI may be irrelevant. "Tech companies are moving ahead without waiting for SDMI," said Philip Wiser, chief technical officer at Liquid Audio, a company that distributes copyright-protected music. "That's setting the standards, really." Very few digital music pl...