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Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!scott From: scott@psy.uwa.oz.au (Scott Fisher) Newsgroups: rec.audio Subject: Re: Defeating SCMS Date: 23 Nov 1992 02:02:09 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Lines: 39 Message-ID: <1epe31INNfpv@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> References: <1992Nov15.215144.12449@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <1eej0gINN1i4@hpscdf.scd.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au rkarlqu@scd.hp.com (Richard Karlquist) writes: >Two other possible reasons for SCMS: >*conspiracy theory mode on* >1. SCMS and the copy guard system that preceeded it (the one with the [theory deleted...] >2. Anyone (especially non-Japanese companies) who tries to compete with >DAT/DCC gets snarled up in government red tape. Remember that the same >companies who make DAT also own record companies (Sony=CBS, etc.). [theory deleted...] These are quite possibly true...my own theory is that the recording companies saw a threat to their existence in that if everyone had a SCMS free DAT, then share-ware music (similar to computer software)] and other copy-based distribution methods may kill off their recording studios and present monopoly. New and undergound bands would no longer have to get a recording contract with a recording company they could record a DAT and release it as share-ware, soon eveyone has a copy and the recording companies not only miss out on signing up the band but they miss out on sales as well...think about all the new shere-ware, free-ware music that would be avaliable...why buy from the industry? Hows that for a reason for SCMS? Regards Scott. _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth [32S, 116E]--> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v Joy is a Jaguar XJ-6 with a flat battery, a blown oil seal and an unsympathetic wife, 9km outside of a small remote town, 3:15am on a cold wet winters morning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------