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- From: duggan@cs.unc.edu (Adam Duggan)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:53:01 -0500
- Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- References: <1993Jan22.190811.28768@e2big.mko.dec.com> <30749@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.184852.1280@cmkrnl.com>
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- >> Yeah, "you can record on MD and its size makes it more convenient for
- >> portable and car use". Want to bet that it's impossible to squeeze a
- >> full 74 minutes, 16 bits/sample/channel, 44.1 kHz, onto a recordable
- >> disk the size of an MD? I wouldn't. I'll bet they could do it within
- >> another year.
- >> But they won't, because they really don't want consumers to have a
- >> mass-market- priced digital recording system that can make exact
- >> copies of CDs.
- >> I refuse to support Sony or Philips in these efforts *regardless* of
- >> the technical merits of the systems, regardless of whether they're
- >> "good enough", etc.
-
- I have to agree completely here. They have introduced MD/DCC now,
- when they can excuse the compression algorithm b/c of technological
- limitations, so that they can get the format(s) entrenched. The end
- result of this will be that this <required> compression (which won't
- be required for long), will end up being their copy protection. They
- won't have to worry about people making unlimited digital copies,
- because the compression algorithm will provide the degradation to
- prevent it. (Note that there is no way to circumvent the
- compression/decompression algorithms, even on digital I/O).
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- I am not advocating being able to make unlimited digital copies of the
- CD you buy in order to distribute it to your friends (and theirs, ad
- nauseum). It just really irritates me to know that the technology is
- being compromised just because some people want to insure that they
- continue to make their billions.
-
- -Adam Duggan
- duggan@cs.unc.edu
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