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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DCC -- JUST SAY NO! (was: The end of cassettes,
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.143143.886@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:31:43 GMT
- References: <BxKt78.2Hu@unix.portal.com> <1992Nov17.020210.879@cmkrnl.com> <27604@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Nov18.041231.12460@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1992Nov18.041231.12460@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>,
- whs70@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (sohl,william h) writes:
- > If DCC is a digital audio medium, isn't the existing Home Recording
- > Rights Act of 1991 applicable to DCC (and MD) tape? Now, I still
- > think paying royalties on blank tape is a bunch of crap, but at
- > the moment, the tax is still a few cents, so I can't see the royalty
- > tax being an impediment (cost wise) to the continued copying of
- > borrowed CDs, records, etc.
-
- I don't think anyone is all that worried about the actual amount of the tax.
- What is bothersome is that this may be a foot in the door for other legislation
- intended to further curtail home recording equipment.
-
- I say again: When audio tape recorders were introduced shortly after WW II,
- the record companies went to Congress asking that consumers be required to have
- a license before they could legally own a tape recorder! And there is no sign
- that they're any more reasonable now.
-
- --- 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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