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To: limtex who wrote (6817)	8/30/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

As I understand it, you download a new CD selection and pay for that with your credit card. But if you are using the SNDK card, you can't give someone else a copy. Of course you could play it through a stereo and make an old fashioned analog copy, but it wouldn't have quite as good quality as your digital copy. So you could bypass the copy restriction simply by making an inferior analog reproduction on tape, just the same way that people often copy casettes nowadays. But the difference here is in the quality of the copy, and the difficulty you would have trying to SELL the inferior copy. That's the key: The publisher and web site owner get the fees for selling copies, not those who try to make illegal ones.