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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Defeating SCMS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.105514.869@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 10:55:13 PST
- References: <1992Nov11.023239.2744@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <Bxn2x7.61@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <1992Nov13.185500.20300@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1992Nov13.185500.20300@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>,
- winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
- > [...] The 11 code for analog
- > input is there because the recording industry insisted on it.
-
- One really has to wonder why they inisted on it.
-
- The "home tapers" that they keep claiming are hurting their revenues were not
- going to switch to DAT when analog cassette is good enough for their needs and
- DAT equipment is so much more expensive.
-
- The actual bootleggers -- those that make and sell large quantities of tapes --
- don't need DAT either because, again, their chief market is those same folks
- with the analog cassette boom-boxes. And even if they were copying onto DAT,
- they'd be able to afford professional DAT decks.
-
- Several writers have theorized that the record companies wanted to make
- consumer-level DAT decks unsuitable for studio work, so they can continue to
- control the industry. But this doesn't make sense either. For one thing, the
- price difference between consumer and pro DAT decks just isn't that steep. For
- another, even if one did use a consumer DAT deck to make a master for a CD, the
- pressing plant you hand it to could use an SCMS stripper. (They'd have to
- resample your master anyway to go from 48 to 44.1 kHz.)
-
- The only idea that makes sense is that the recording industry simply wanted a
- foot in the door for future legislation to control home recording equipment.
- Well, they have their foot in the door. I'd like to know what laws they're
- planning to push next.
-
- (Did you know that when reel-to-reel tape decks were introduced shortly after
- WW II, the record industry proposed a law that would require you to have a
- license to own one??)
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
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