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- From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
- Subject: Re: update post for AA'93
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:31:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.043106.7765@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <01GSXTIAVNGO8WWEDL@delphi.com> <RATINOX.92Dec30205314@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
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- In article <RATINOX.92Dec30205314@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>, Citizen Lemming <ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu> writes:
- > MAX> Does that mean people can just plug their VCR's into the system and
- > MAX> tape all these animes?
-
- Actually, no. If you read the follow-ups, you know by now that USMC and
- USR have given no such authorization until they are *certain* users can't
- tap VCRs into the system.
-
- > Put it this way. The Con's going to have around 1500 attendees, give or
- > take a few hundred. Of these, maybe 10% (tops!) will actually be recording
- > the CC programs. This "costs" the subbers/dubbers... 150 people times $30
- > per tape... $4,500, which they chaulk up as advertising. Of the remaining
- > attendees, let's say that 35% (a conservative estimate) will buy at least
- > one tape from any one particular company. At $30 per tape that comes out
- > to... 525 people times 30... $15,750. The gross profit comes out to
- > $11,250. Not bad, is it. They're not losing anything.
-
- It's amazing what some people will come up with to rationalize their
- illegal (AND IMMORAL) behavior...
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