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For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word (arstechnica.com)
The Missouri-based National Audio Company, reports Ars Technica, is sweeping up in a category that our future-looking selves might twenty years ago have imagined would be dead and buried in the year 2015: making and selling audiocassettes. There are fewer and fewer competitors in the tape-making business, but NAC still has a healthy market for cassettes -- in October, the company noted "a 31 percent increase in order volume over the previous year." From the article: [Company president Steve Stepp] said that as his competitors began bailing out of the cassette business once CDs came to prominence, NAC started buying up their machinery. “It would have been incredibly expensive 30 to 35 years ago when [cassette manufacturing machines] were new on the market, but when our competitors bailed out of the business and started making CDs, we went round the country and bought [them] out," he said. Some artists are still releasing music on tape, but about 70 percent of what the company sells is blank cassettes; there are an awful lot of tape decks out there; my father alone still buys a few hundred blanks each year.
"Ob so le se nc e is Just a 12-Letter Word"
Really?
Because in the new reality they're trying to create, you are liable for what your customers do with your product.
The RIAA/MPAA should sue the electric companies that supply the power to pirates. After all, those computers don't run on hamsters!!
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Over like Spanish rule of the Americas.
As demonstrated by the fact that people who speak Spanish feel at home from Buenos Aires to Denver
lucm, indeed.
Except Hipsters have a buttload more money than the rednecks... and they pay very well for someone to restore that 1965 motorcycle for them and add a beard holder.
I love hipsters, they actually pay their bills.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.