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- BUSINESS, Page 50Business NotesELECTRONICSPennies for The Piper
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- Compared with other technologies that have reached consumers'
- homes with blistering speed, digital recording has been a
- laggard. One reason: musicmakers resisted devices that could
- enable consumers to create free, mint-condition copies of their
- favorite albums. But last week the hardware makers and the music
- producers reached a truce, agreeing on a plan under which small
- royalties will be charged on all digital recording equipment
- (2%) and blank tapes and disks (3%). The royalties will be
- distributed to musicians in proportion to their record sales.
- If okayed by Congress, the draft legislation could provide a
- boost for digital audiotape and two new formats heading for the
- market: the digital compact cassette and the recordable mini
- disk.
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