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- From: whs70@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (sohl,william h)
- Subject: Re: DAT and SCMS, some info
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:52:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.165221.23668@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <RLK.92Nov20095023@underprize.think.com> rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.223410.21621@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> whs70@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (sohl,william h) writes:
- >
- > In article <RLK.92Nov19155321@underprize.think.com> rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz) writes:
- > >I'm curious as to whether the HRRA forbids record companies from putting
- > >an SCMS 10 code (no digital copies) on digital media?
- >
- > A recording company is under no legal obligation to code original
- > material as uncopieable or otherwise. In other words, if someone
- > wants to sell a CD or DAT tape which doesn't prohibit multiple
- > generations of copying, then the producer/originator of that CD
- > or DAT is perfectly free to encode the SCMS with an 00 coding
- > for unlimited copying.
- >
- >I understand that. My question is whether a record company is legally
- >prohibited from using the 10 code, forbidding ANY copying.
-
- Oops, sorry I misread what you were asking. I just browsed through my
- copy of the HRRA and can't see anything that would seemingly state that
- a producer of CDs, DATs, etc. can't encode with a 10 code (the codes
- themselves aren't even mentioned). If, howver, a company did that, it
- still wouldn't stop the digital-analog-digital copying, AND, it would
- become known pretty fast that XXX CD is encoded with a "prohibit all
- digital copies" coding and might then actually result in a lower
- number of sales.
-
- As several others have mentioned, the real gain for the recording
- industry is the royalty tax on blank digital tapes. I suspect the
- industry fully knows it can't stop any of the taping that generally
- goes on by individuals for their own use and they won't really try
- to either. The thing to watch is the probable cry for higher
- royalty taxes in the future as well as an extension of royalty taxes
- on other blank media (eg. analog cassettes, computer discs, etc.)
-
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