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To: Jim Greif who wrote (6181)	6/28/1999 6:00:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

No music publisher that has to pay artists for their work is going to allow free downloads, no matter how many Diamond Rio units flood the market. The problem is secondary publication, where someone acquires the music legally and then makes free copies available. I don't think it would be terribly difficult to find some federal law that would allow the manufacturer of equipment that promotes illegal copying to be held jointly responsible for any monetary damages that would accrue to a firm whose music had been illegally copied. The technical solution that has been suggested, which includes SNDK memory, could easily win out after a few lawsuits discouraged other alternatives.