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To: Michael Coley who wrote (4181)	11/16/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Serge Collins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Can anyone confirm the Compaq rumor? There is nothing on the wires.eom

To: Michael Coley who wrote (4181)	11/16/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Michael, * speculation * Imagine downloading a book from Amazon onto a ZIP! No waiting 3 days for delivery, and the copyright holder is protected because it cannot be moved from the ZIP disk. Electronic books could be sold for less without impacting anyone's profit margins. There are a couple of electronic book systems on the market. They are expensive (one is $500) and only proprietary books are available. I bet the people in Roy have thought of this. Gottfried

To: Michael Coley who wrote (4181)	11/16/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: Naggrachi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

RE: Record/Play is big news! >> I think this could become bigger than the other announcements... << That was my first thought when I read it, too. That could get MAJOR support from the industry.>> Yes but what good is it if the music you just purchased and stored on Zip media, can not be played in your car, bedroom, kitchen? Without a PC near you? I'm I missing something? Zead

To: Michael Coley who wrote (4181)	11/17/1998 12:24:00 AM
From: ftth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Does anyone really understand the technical details of Record/Play? How is this any different than a digitally-signed, encrypted file/document? Confining an encrypted file/document to the one and only one decryption source having the proper certificate is nothing new. How does this PREVENT copying? Maybe it makes it a little harder, but the data has to be broadcast on the PCI bus in the clear, in order for the sound card to know what to do with it. The data can be captured with any number of PCI bus analyzers on the market, and saved to a file of your choice. In the case of print material (e.g. books), how does it prevent hard copies from being printed out and mass-duplicated? Seems like its kind of like locking the front door, but leaving the front window open. Anybody know the details? dh