From: "Geo." 

You're kidding right? Todays big piracy worry is because the quality of the
copies is so good. Leave the technical problem to the world's geeks, they
will find a way, trust me on that.

I have some 1080p recordings from long before anything was available on
blueray or HDDVD, the fileshare networks had made these available long
before the market did.

The only issue is the public has to get access to the quality, if for
example folks who handle the multi-track masters didn't have to worry about
copyrights (because they expired in 5 years) then the quality would find
it's way to the public. It only takes one person to release it, once that
happens then it spreads like a virus.

Oooo, that's a good example. How hard would it be to get rid of a virus,
well that's how hard it would be to get rid of the copies on the public
fileshare networks.

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> How are you going to file share the multi-track masters?
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> Glenn M.
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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>>> The unique thing, is that the old analog formats, while troublesome with
>>> some generations of tape (gooey tape shed syndrome, which is another
>>> discussion totally), can be played, and the material recovered for
>>> re-issue. The Digital formats though, if the deterioration of the media
>>> is so great, that the error correction won't handle the scope of the
>>> errors, the audio mutes, and you have NADA.  So, in the digital world,
>>> it's an all or nothing deal.
>>
>> The solution to all this is to allow filesharing networks and the general
>> public to archive stuff. The more copies the more likely to find a good
>> quality one in a format you can use. Long term copyrights are going to
>> end up costing society much in the way of lost content.
>>
>> Geo.
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