Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P

plainwhitetoast recommends an article in La Repubblica.it — in Italian, Google translation here. According to Italian lawyer Andrea Monti, an expert on copyright and Internet law, the new Italian copyright law would authorize users to publish and freely share copyrighted music (p2p included). The new law, already approved by both legislative houses, indeed says that one is allowed to publish freely, through the Internet, free of charge, images and music at low resolution or "degraded," for scientific or educational use, and only when such use is not for profit. As Monti says in the interview, those who wrote it didn't realize that the word "degraded" is technical, with a very precise meaning, which includes MP3s, which are compressed with an algorithm that ensures a quality loss. The law will be effective after the appropriate decree of the ministry, and will probably have an impact on pending p2p judicial cases.

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Re:Calling all OiNK ex-admins!

[Pojut]

And I will start it!

I personally LOVE the sound of vinyl...provided you have a good turntable (I personally use an MK1200II) and a good cartridge/needle...Vinyl does have a very unique sound that no digital production can recreate.

That being said, I would still prefer digital over vinyl for a few reasons:

-Durability/longevity
-Ease of storage
-Cost
-Dynamic range
-Ease of backing up

Amongst other things, of course.

Re:Calling all OiNK ex-admins!

[Maxo-Texas]

Vinyl is truly continuous like when you wipe waterpaint across a page.
CD is like a 600dpi laser print of the same waterpainting from three feet away.

It looks identical to most but there are gaps and some people can see that the printout is not a real watercolor.

And even at full 25mb scale, the CD is still missing some information present in the vinyl. These come across as "warmth". The total harmonic picture if you will.

It might be possible to get closer to vinyl by recording at a higher data rate. And there may be a point where the lost data is truly below human hearing resolution.