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To: Retiarius who wrote (290)	11/3/1999 9:22:00 AM
From: grogger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 332

Good time to buy or is this one ready for a sell-off? RG

To: Retiarius who wrote (290)	11/7/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: If only I'd held	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 332

To all, I would like to invite each and every one of you to drop in and have a gander at my very first thread. I hope to form some valuable discussion about this topic since I feel it warrants discussion. Hope to see you there. techstocks.com

To: Retiarius who wrote (290)	11/18/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Jeff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 332

Screen capture is a really dumb way to capture content IMO...everything's turned into pixels, at screen resolution. And it's big: instead of a single byte 'A', you've got many many pixels describing the onscreen representation. Better to write a printer driver that'll capture the data stream.. like Adobe's PDFWriter or Distiller. I believe I've seen one that prints to HTML (?). Why aren't any of the digital audio formats fully secure? Because someone can choose an audio output device that'll save it to a file...bada bing bada boom. Information wants to be free, 'specially when it's in digital form. Anyone can walk into a library and photocopy a entire book, but they won't. They can OCR it into PDF and post it on their web site, but they won't. The issue is the practical difficulty in stealing, and people's motivation to do so. I do agree that one shouldn't worry too much about piracy / copy protection though..