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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: reading CD data
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:29:21 GMT
- Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park
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- References: <1993Jan21.205345.7268@news.media.mit.edu> <1993Jan22.195631.21751@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.195631.21751@netcom.com> abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) writes:
- >mike@media-lab.mit.edu (Michael Hawley) writes:
- >>Anyone have the driver code to read digital data
- >>from audio CD's using the CD-ROM drive?
- >>Digitizing through the DSP is adequate but silly.
- >
- >This is, of course, highly desirable.
- >It's also illegal.
-
- Please explain why you believe that this is illegal? It seems to me
- that capturing the digital samples over the SCSI bus is not much
- different in the legal sense than getting them over the serial optical
- interface available on many CD players. It seems to me that the "fair
- use" provisions of copyright law would permit this for personal use.
-
- As others have mentioned, you can buy CDROM and DAT drives from SGI
- that allow you access to the sound samples. If you ask the vendors of
- the drives why they don't make it available, they'll tell you that
- they don't believe there's a market for it.
-
- louie
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