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From: shun@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Digital Audio Cassettes...- and copying
Message-ID: <7007@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 20:19:51 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  5 20:19:51 1985
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Reply-To: shun@ucla-cs.UUCP (Shun Cheung)
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In article <1234@tekgvs.UUCP> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:

>..........   what if I
>already own an LP version (purchased legally and owned legitimately) of
>the CD and now want to make a Beta HiFi copy of the CD? I think we all
>agree that it is legal for me to make a tape copy of my LP; am I
>restricted from making a copy of the same material from my friend's CD
>just because I don't own the copy in that specific medium? Does purchase
>of the LP give me the right to make a Beta HiFi copy of the CD?

When the price of a CD is higher than that of an LP,
and assume that the quality of the Beta HiFi (or digital cassette) copy
is the same as that of the CD, which is (assumed to be) better than your LP,
you are now getting something better (and more expensive?)
then what you paid for. Is that OK or not? Well, I'll leave it
up to you.

By the way, although CDs and digital cassettes will possibly have
different sampeling rates so that people won't be able to make
binary copies, are there going to be pre-recorded digital cassettes?
If so, people can still make copies from pre-recorded cassettes.