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From: d6b@psuecl.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Video Toaster: WHERE IS IT?
Message-ID: <20603.26ee53a8@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: 12 Sep 90 19:26:31 GMT
References: <30071@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <21941@grebyn.com>
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
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In article <21941@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:

> Forgive me, I mean nothing personal, but this sounds paranoid.
> It implies shady dealing by equipment manufacturers to limit the
> quality of low cost gear simply to keep their profits unjustifiably
> high.  Unless I'm mistaken, anti-trust laws make this illegal.

[I'm not the author of the original article, but I can't resist...]
The company involved is Japan Inc., and last time I checked US laws
don't apply in Japan. To my knowledge, *no* US company makes consumer
DAT machines. But they aren't the ones restricting commerce -- it's the
US recording industry. They are using various forms of threats and
intimidation to dissaude the Japanese from marketing the DATs here in the
US. Probably legal, but certainly unethical. Sorry for getting off the
subject. :-)

-- Dan Babcock