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From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Toaster
Message-ID: <26f14f94-2b45.2comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 22:00:27 GMT
References: <4374@crash.cts.com> <33869@cup.portal.com>
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>  Resp: 1 of 1 by [sullivan - segall]
>  Date: Fri Sep 14 1990 00:31 
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>DAT had copyright problems? 
>
>...okay, I give.  Whose copyright was violated with DAT?  Too bad they
>didn't call it something that didn't have a copyright... DTA maybe?  
>
>In case you hadn't noticed the issue of copyright is incapable of applying
>to DAT recorders.  DAT recorders are not original works of art.  So where
>have you been living recently.  Didn't you realize this *is* the behind
>of the iron curtain?  These days you can't fart without someone claiming 
>it was his idea first... -kls
> 
>                           -Sullivan_-_Segall (a.k.a. Radagast)
>_______________________________________________________________
> 
>/V\ "I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in
> '   cases of oral-genital intimacy,  unless it has in some way
>obstructed interstate commerce." -- J. Edgar Hoover
>_______________________________________________________________
> 
>Mail to: ...sun!portal!cup.portal.com!radagast or
>         radagast@cup.portal.com
> 
Hmm... Okay, I'll assume that that was serious.  The copyright question
arose in discussions of what use a DAT would be put to, not the name DAT or
the technology.  Record companys felt that DATs would be used to copy CDs,
thus getting all the advantages of CD technology without actually buying the
product.  They had similar feelings about cassettes years ago, and only
admitted around 1988 that sale of blank cassettes hadn't impacted their
income at all, since the only people doing home recording were people who
wouldn't have bought the record anyway...

Of course, none of this applies to the Toaster...<chuckle>

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