[IP] now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 13, 2005 2:13:05 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
Remember how file-sharing was the one true threat to the music
industry? Well, now it's CD burning instead.
''Burned'' CDs accounted for 29 percent of all recorded music
obtained by fans in 2004, compared to 16 percent attributed to
downloads from online file-sharing networks, said Mitch Bainwol,
chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America.
....
Copy protection technology ''is an answer to the problem that
clearly the marketplace is going to see more of,'' he added.
More details at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Music-
Retailers.html
(Aside: does anyone else remember their assault on cassette tapes
about 20 years ago, where they wanted to encode an allegedly-inaudible
signal that recorders would recognize? That attempt failed when it
was demonstrated that the chosen signal was, in fact, quite audible
on certain types of music.)
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