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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Free Nelson Mandela
Message-ID: <1989Sep5.134817.20604@talos.uucp>
Date: 5 Sep 89 13:48:17 GMT
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Jan Steinman writes:
 > The latest CD/DAT copy protection scheme allows *one* copy to be made
 > of any one CD.  Sounds great -- those who have a financial interest
 > in defeating it will easily, while your average Joe will get his
 > "extra DAT for the car" from the black market!  Sigh.  At least it's
 > better than the idiotic notch previously proposed!

Buy a $2000 DAT recorder just so you can play a bootleg copy of a $12
CD?  There are already vastly more affordable car CD players.  Since
CD's don't wear out like LP's, there's little to be gained by taping
them and archiving the original.

Jim McCoy writes:
 > Actually, i think that the compromise that was negotiated between the
 > recording industry and DAT companies was a little different.  I
 > believe that the circuit in the cassette will prevent DAT to DAT
 > copies, but not CD to DAT.  This will make mass reproduction
 > inconvenient, but not impossible.

If true, this is terrible!  If I buy a DAT recorder for my music studio
to make digital masters, thanks to this stupid restriction I can't make
a backup copy?  Wonderful. :-(