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- From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Defeating SCMS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182505.27885@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:25:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.215144.12449@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <1eej0gINN1i4@hpscdf.scd.hp.com>
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- Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
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- In article <1eej0gINN1i4@hpscdf.scd.hp.com>,
- rkarlqu@scd.hp.com (Richard Karlquist) writes:
- |>
- |>2. Anyone (especially non-Japanese companies) who tries to compete with
- |>DAT/DCC gets snarled up in government red tape.
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- DCC is being pushed by Philips, which is a Dutch company, not Japanese.
-
- |>Remember that the same
- |>companies who make DAT also own record companies (Sony=CBS, etc.).
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- Sony is the only DAT manufacturer that I know of that owns a record company.
- The main reason why they bought Columbia Records was to stop Columbia from
- getting in the way of selling and marketing DAT in the US. Columbia was in the
- forefront of the notch filter and the blockade of DAT technology.
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- The point being that the DAT manufacturers are not in bed with the recording
- industry on this issue. If they had their way, there would be no DAT tax and
- no SCMS requirement. But the recording industry lobby is powerful enough to
- sink DAT, so the manufacturers cut the best deal that they could.
-
- --PSW
-