-=> Quoting Bonnie Goodwin to Steve Mctague <=-
 BG> Hi Steve, John and all!
 
 -> JA> The CDRs work quite well! You can "roll your own" in any
 -> JA> order you desire with point and click control.  The HP unit is
 -> JA> down to $599 locally. The blanks can be had for around $6.00 (US)
 BG> I think that tax on media was a bad solution to a problem.. what about
 BG> those of us that make original music, yet have to pay BMI or ASCAP a
 BG> fee for that blank media because it is assumed that it will be used for
 BG> making pirate copies of stuff.
Totally agree.  I don't mind them constructing barriers to
protect their property, provided it doesn't get in the way
of the consumer.  The computer software industry tried the
copy-protection schemes, but they were a royal pain to
make work all the time and restore from computer failures.
DAT also faces the copy-protection scheme issues.  I'm
on the Medeski Martin & Wood list on the internet, which
devotes alot of time setting up tape sharing trees because
MMW promotes audience taping of their concerts.  And of
course a big issue to the trees is if you can defeat the
SCMS (isn't that it?) DAT copy scheme since many people
receive 3 or 4th or nth generation copies.
 BG> The "media on demand" to be to be a viable option for most by the end
 BG> of the century. Imagine taking your credit card and buying a music
 BG> right via the Internet, then having the media streamed to you overnight
 BG> where it is immediately written to a CD which you then may copy parts
 BG> of to a "best of" CD for your car or boom box.
And I can't wait!  We've already got a high speed link
at work, which makes coming home to 28.8 rather hard. 
Some of the software technology for purchasing over the
internet will be more secure than ANYTHING we have today.
Besides the anti-hacker thing, they'l have things in
place so that the retailer knows just enough to validate
the transaction, no account specifics for their clerk to
run off with.
--- Blue Wave/386 v2.20 [NR]
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