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To: diddlysquatz who wrote (505)	11/9/1999 6:45:00 AM
From: bc_mack	Respond to of 674

World would not be a better place . . . if the price for a few more unemployed lawyers was a lot more unemployed musicians. The "free music" bunch took too literally the 60s Guess Who classic . . . "Maybe I'll be there to shake your hand; maybe I'll be there to share the land that they'll be giving away, when we all live together." The concept of giving away land was hopelessly naive. As a lasting music business model, there thought that music will be eternally given away over the Internet is also quaintly naive. Encoding will be an effective deterrent to illegal copying. An analogy is available in the TV industry. First, suppose the proprietary content were available as a broadcast TV channel that people were supposed to pay to watch, but that was nonetheless received on everyone's broadcast TV antennae -- the rate of payment would be very low for such a channel. Then, consider DSS satellite -- sure, all codes can be broken, but what percentage of people watch DSS illegally? I suspect that very few people pirate DSS programs. I also suspect that few people will listen to pirated music that is available more conveniently (and legally) from a Liquid Audio-affiliated web site. bc_mack