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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: (UNCONSTITUTIONAL!) CD to DAT agreement
Message-ID: <3713@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 11 Aug 89 18:37:05 GMT
References: <752@palladium.UUCP> <1104@tukki.jyu.fi> <1064@philmds.UUCP> <618@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <618@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com> jones@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com writes:
>In article <1064@philmds.UUCP>, janpo@philmds.UUCP (Jan Postma) writes:
>> An recording on a DAT from an analog source can be digitally copied twice,
>> i.e. a digital copy of a digital copy of an analog recording on a DAT is
>> possible, any further digital copying of this third generation is not.
>
>This makes me cringe that these clowns are trying to deny me my Constitutional
>rights to publish my own works so that some money-grubbers can be so *STUPID*
>as to not see that a simple distribution amp can be made to drive 200 DATs
>from a single CD at once, thus (a) simplifying the task of pirating and (b)
>bypassing the so-called anti-pirate circuit.

Ahh, but think of how all those bootlegged DAT's are now copy-protected,
so that we receivers of stolen goods will have to buy from our local
black-marketeer forever.

Think about it.

Copyright protection for and only for the copies.

Thank you, Congress.  I don't even own a CD machine, now, but I'm sure
as hell going to get one.  And lots and lots of multiconductor ribbon
cable, and a couple-dozen LM356 op-amps and...

				--Blair
				  "...and a boat, and a house, and
				   a little crack dealership on the
				   side..."