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To: Starlight who wrote (13379)7/29/2000 2:32:21 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
Elizabeth,

Napster does not infringe copyright laws. The data rate from a CD is 1411 kps while most of the songs exchanged on Napster do not exceed 128 kps. It's akin to me recording a song from CD to cassette and giving it to you. I am not creating an equal to the CD. BTW, the courts said something similar to this in the early days of Betamax.

From the home where MP3 was created:

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For a digital audio signal from a CD, the bit-rate is 1411.2 kbps. With MPEG-2 AAC, CD-like sound quality is achieved at 96 kbps.

BK
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