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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (1456)	7/6/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: John Solder	Respond to of 5023

Don't try to change the subject to DVD. You can take your MP3 music player everywhere Don't say can say have to. You have to take your player with you everywhere and your cables. Sure sounds awkward to me. If I buy music I want to be able to play it where ever I want, not where Big Brother tells me I can. One's spouse cannot use the same CF cards in his/her player, You can't make mixes and give them as gifts. You are extremely limited in what you can do. This paradigm is so rigid it will never fly. The music industry wants it still born and that's what they'll get. It will NEVER fly with the user community. Huge $$$ for media, rigid control over hardware by Music companies and extra layers of hardware needed will doom this to failure from the start. The new paradigm is OPEN and SHAREABLE ! MP3 CF with Big Brother telling you what you can and cannot do is a recipe for failure. Look for MP3 sales to implode when teens find out how this 'new paradigm' will really work.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (1456)	7/6/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

Re: MP3, et al A couple of points of clarification: 1. MP3 is here already without copy-protection. It will not go away. 2. Anyone can rip a CD into an MP3 file. This is how all of those nasty MP3 files get created in the first place. 3. The CD-audio format is fixed and cannot be changed without obsoleting zillions of existing CD players. The audio industry has no choice but to continue releasing music on CDs which will immediately be ripped into copyable MP3 files. The result is that the genie is out of the bottle and cannot be put back in. SDMI and its bretheren are simply an industry smokescreen to try and divert attention from this fact. They are all DOA. What will the ultimate outcome be? Simple. The recording industry will have to dramatically lower the price of audio CDs to the point where they are priced competitively with other storage media. As the software industry has learned, this is the only effective means of controlling copying. This means the retail price of CDs is headed for $4.99 whether the industry likes it or not. Expect much kicking and screaming along the way, but the consumer who is very tired of paying $15 and up for audio CDs will be the ultimate beneficiary.