From: "Glenn Meadows" 

How are you going to file share the multi-track masters?

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Glenn M.
"Geo."  wrote in message news:45a02391{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:459e4b2f{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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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