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To: SlateColt who wrote (2503)	6/1/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: SlateColt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11417

An excerpt from Sprague's original vision: "...In the end, most software industry analysts agree that metering devices will eventually be used with expensive, business-to-business content. But for consumer applications like games, experts are more pessimistic. The only way it will work, they suggest, is if meters are built into the motherboard of every PC. That's not completely out of the question. After all, DAT players are sold commercially with circuits that prevent unauthorized copying, despite the added cost. But then again, consumers never really adopted DAT players, as they didn't seem to offer much of an advantage. And that's the situation Wave and Infosafe find themselves in now: they need to convince us that the benefits of metering are significant enough for us to put a toll collector in our computers...." We have motherboard...at least a percentage of them right now... Here is the complete link to the article: ag.arizona.edu