Hi Dave,

On Sun 2037-Jun-07 06:44, Dave Drum (1:124/311) wrote to Bob Ackley:

 BA> I have no problem with it.  I think a similar proposal was made for
 BA> blank audio tape and cassettes, and blank videotapes.  Dunno if it was
 BA> ever implemented, if it was I never noticed it.

DD> Yeah, it got rammed through. My problem with it is that the revenues
DD> went to the record companies, studios, etc. Not one red cent ever
DD> reached the actual artists ... but, then the companies have been
DD> using creative bookkeeping since they have been in business.
Make that the record companies.  A lot of the "studios"
never really reaped anything from that, but the folks at the major labels sure did.

About that same time was when dat was coming out, and they
developed scms, or "serial copy management system" to keep
people from making unlimited digital copies.
fOr example, I mix down an artist to digital audio tape, and I engage scms.
 THat means that he could not run copies from that dat tape because scms
wouldn't allow it, if done
digitally.

THink I told a story on myself elsewhere this thread where I accidentally
put scms data in the mix down stream of a
client's dat tape that we then sent to a cd production
outfit in CAlifornia.  THey had to do some extra processing
when creating his glass master to strip away the scms data,
and I got to eat the $85 charge for that one.

Regards,
           Richard
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