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Re: Is it about to rain on our MP3 Parade?


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Is it about to rain on our MP3 Parade?
  • From: Nigel Orr <nigel.orr@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:53:00 +0000
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At 09:14 26/01/00 -0000, you wrote:
>We of course know the reason why they want to stop people creating
their
>own MP3's. It's because they want to sell them for themselves. So they
>can rip us the paying public off even more.

There are two problems with that idea, as you probably know:
1) MP3 is inferior quality to CD, so anyone with a CD is unlikely to want
to _buy_ an MP3 file to match it- they can still make their own, even if
they can't rip the digital direct from the CD.

2) You can't buy MP3's in any great range at the moment, though I guess
they will start to supply ones to match the 'protected' CDs if/when they
arrive...

>television and hear on the radio, and don't have the backbone to stand
>up for themselves and the the rest of the populace and refuse to pay
the
>rip-off prices.

So instead steal copies of the music by copying it from friends... aint'
humanity great- a world of spineless cheats ;-)

Anyway, back to automation...

Nigel


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