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From: "Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor"
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Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate
>
> Michael Hoffman's email seems to have hit the list like a Rorschach
> test, causing folks to take issue (at length!) with whatever part of
> the MD/MP3/PC-audio equation raises their hackles.
>
> So, please allow me my reading :-)
>
> "Michael Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well then forget MD and stay with MP3. We must engineer our own
> > MD-burner technology that can do it the right way -- to make MD and
> > possibly ATRAC a lossless bit-for-bit general file transfer and
> > storage medium, *fully* computer-centric just like MP3.
>
> Right! While I appreciate your bravery Michael, the sad fact is that
> we (the users) are not permitted to decide which features and
> conveniences modern audio gear will have. Not even the manufacturers
> can. In this day and age the decision has been given over to the RIAA
> and their friends in Congress.
>
> The only reason people can have so much fun with MP3s and CDs (8cm or
> otherwise) is that PC connectable CDs existed before the Home
> Recording Rights Act. Were it otherwise, CD would certainly be hobbled
> with SCMS (or worse), just as MD is, and DataPlay will be.
Also, cd-r's and cd-rw's (computer based) were not crippled with this
because of computer connecitivity, which makes them not an audio format (in
a manner of speaking)
>
> Wouldn't you guess it is glaringly obvious to Sony what wonderful
> playtoys fully PC integrated Minidisc recorders would be, and the huge
> market potential they would have? But I take my reading of Sony's
> thinking from the NetMD announcement; the promiment aspect of it is
> not that MD can now be part of the PC audio scene, but rather that it
> will be able to satisfy the digital rights management requirements
> that simply everyone in the PC/Internet audio field is concerning
> themselves with.
>
> I think it is best to consider CD/MP3 as a wonderful grandfatherered
> anamoly that has (so far) managed to escape being corralled by the
> recording industry. As for whom to plead with for the features on your
> audio dream machine of the future, I suggest writing congress.
>
> Rick
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