Xref: utzoo rec.audio:15331 rec.music.cd:4534 gnu.misc.discuss:272 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!xanth!talos!kjones From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: rec.audio,rec.music.cd,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: DAT copy protection Message-ID: <1989Sep18.184341.20875@talos.uucp> Date: 18 Sep 89 18:43:41 GMT References: <8Z4bbOK00WB_0LK28F@andrew.cmu.edu> <124@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil> Reply-To: kjones@talos.uu.net Lines: 34 Yary Richard Phillip Hluchan writes: > This means you need a pro machine to make a non-copy protected original. Curt Welch writes: > This also means you can make a copy-protected original without a pro > machine! If your recording is good enough that everyone wants a copy > of it, then you probably want it copy-protected. Ah, I knew this topic would drift back into realm of GNU eventually. Suppose I don't want to sell my music or protect it in any way other than keeping other people from restricting its distribution. Sound familiar to you GNUs? And my reasons for this need not be altruistic. For example, giving away tapes is a good way to expose people to your music. All other things being equal, the better the quality of the recording, the more favorable the impression you'll make. If you get enough of a following, then you might be able to SELL some music someday or, if you're really lucky, be offered record contract. At the very least you might land some gigs. Thanks to this gratuitous copy protection, people won't be able to freely share music that I WANT them to give away. People shouldn't be forced to take a trip down Analog Lane just to be able to make more copies for their friends. If this topic still does not seem germane to the newsgroup gnu.misc.discuss, imagine if computers marked disks and tapes, and refused to make third generation copies of ANY data, copyrighted or not. kyle jones ...!uunet!talos!kjones p.s. All of this presumes DAT will eventually become affordable enough to dip into the cassette tape market. If it doesn't then the point is moot, because no one's going to sink a fortune into a DAT player just to listen to flawless bootleg copies of CDs, when CD players for your home, car, and shoulder are already available and affordable.)