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- From: abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell)
- Subject: Re: reading CD data
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.183547.20473@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1993Jan21.205345.7268@news.media.mit.edu> <1993Jan22.195631.21751@netcom.com> <1k110hINN120@ni.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:35:47 GMT
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- louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
- >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.
-
- I believe it is illegal because (so I was told) there is a law against it.
- Maybe I'm misinformed, but I don't think so. Remember the big noise when
- DAT was first coming out? The music industry was afraid that people were
- going to make flawless copies of their wares, and various encoding schemes
- were proposed to the gummint boys to make this difficult or impossible.
-
- Yes, there are devices that output digital data, but I believe it is the
- case that no *legal* consumer-grade devices are available that will
- record those streams. You may ask whether this really makes any sense.
- The answer is, of course, "No."
-
- Yes, you can buy peripherals for an SGI that will do this, but that may
- be because SGI has persuaded some bureaucrat that it is "professional
- equipment", which lives by a different set of rules.
-
- If I'm just flatulating here, somebody please straighten me out.
-
- Steve abell@netcom.com
-