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- From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 16:09:58 GMT
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- In article <0210aa5@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- >
- >> CD-ROMs. The audio industry will almost certainly insist on circuitry to
- >> prevent read-write CD drives from copying audio CDs, and the software
- >> publishing industry may get on the bandwagon by insisting on similar
- >> circuitry
- >
- >Well the Sony MiniDisk is already out. I dont know if it has this kind of
- >circuitry in it.
-
- I saw a Sony 2.5" MD player/recorder advertised in a catalog this last
- weekend, and it mentioned that the user could make a digital copy of a CD or
- a tape (ie: DAT or whatever), but they would be unable to make another copy
- of that copy. In essence, I guess the answer to the question is yes, such
- circuitry is in place.
- Sony (who controls both hardware and software for the audio
- industry) is going to hold digital audio for ransom for as long as they can.
- Break the chains, dammit. I live for the day that CD-players all have
- Digital-I/O ports... I'm sick of tapes.
-
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- Gregg Giles (Dynamix, Inc.) "Infinite Laser Dog" Development Team
- All opinions expressed are my own. ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu, BIX: ggiles
- Willy Beamish (MS-DOS CD-ROM, Sega-CD), Space Quest V (MS-DOS), A10 1.5 (Amiga)
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