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To: jwright who wrote (34715)11/7/2000 10:15:45 AM
From: ToySoldier  Read Replies (3) of 42771
 
The problem with this whole recorded music piracy protection topic is (as Scott has been saying) that no matter what technology is used to ensure that the music makes it to its intended source, the music eventually has to be HEARD. This means the sound waves leave all protection schemes behind and travel through the air.

Once the music has been turned into sound waves to be placed there at the discretion of so-called trusted individual, the music is basically being laundered from ALL protection schemes previously placed on it since even the most basic audio tape recorder can capture these laundered audio waves.

This captured music (pirated) is then available to be used in whatever discretion the recorder of the music sees fit.

So, when Scott says that the music would have to be plugged into one's head to stop music piracy, that is exactly right since what cannot be heard - cannot be recorded. Of course, if we figure a way of plugging us right into a music system, I think we can be assured that the pirates will figure a way of recording these signals somehow.

The Internet is not the evil source of piracy - that has existed well before the Internet. The Internet has only made the distribution of piracy much easier.

I personally do not see an answer to stopping out-of-control piracy. Maybe the answer is to rethink how the authors and artists get rewarded for their work!

Cheers!

Toy
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