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Technology Stocks : TTRE (TTR Incorporated)
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To: StockDung who wrote (88)2/18/2001 9:55:40 PM
From: afrayem onigwecher  Read Replies (2) of 609
 
TTR in Newsweek Article

Just last week I learned that an Israeli company called TTR has created a technology called Safe Audio that allows music companies to press CDs in such a way that digital copies can’t be made. If the next Jennifer Lopez disc you buy is Safe Audio-ized and you try to burn a CD copy, or even use a software program to place it in your computer jukebox, J. Lo’s dulcet tones will be overwhelmed by horrible white noise. TTR’s Mark Tokayer notes that though U.S. consumers might have the right to make such copies for themselves, the Sonys and AOL Time Warners of the world have no legal obligation to provide you with the means to exercise those rights. And the Millennium Copyright Act is ready to whack you if you try to take those rights back. Tokayer says that his company is negotiating with all the major entertainment powers and expects Safe Audio to be on discs sold by the end of this year.
Does this mean that we’re doomed to whatever crumbs the Bertelsmanns throw us? That eventually the wonderful so-called celestial jukebox that comes from the availability of zillions of copyrighted works on demand will require not only an endless stream of nickels, but a loss of our traditional rights? Not necessarily. Pamela Samuelson believes that if the combination of law, technology and industry greed threatens to wipe out fair use, adjustments to the law can restore what’s been lost—if the people make their will known to their legislators. Sixty-two million constituents can’t be wrong.


© 2001 Newsweek, Inc.

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