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I love to read about what different company's research and development offices are doing, but they always seem a little too good to be true. I've seen this one before and, truthfully, I think it sounds like fiction. Someone could have come up with that one while contemplating what they'd like the universe to be. Personally, I think the kind of control governments that chose to utilize that could have is disgusting. However, as a personal memory device that would allow one to look back at what they did that day, it might be useful. If one really needed one of those, they could get a recording device and talk to it about the events of the day, though. Needless to say, Compaq says they never plan to implement the use of these on the market, so we're in luck as far as privacy issues are concerned.
1) MP3s became popular in the first place only because they allowed for an easy way to pirate music. 2) These rules they want to inforce eliminates that 3) The format is a lossy one and as such is not as great as the wav format for quality, so why bother once the rules are in place 4) if you want cds full of music which is pirated, just change your mp3s to wavs, burn and then use your CD player! 5) jeesh!
Could we not also change the date in our BIOS and elsewhere so that any mp3 that is made in the future has a false date on it and is grandfathered. hmm... I also didn't know that encoders recorded what date an mp3 was made on. oiy.
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I love to read about what different company's research and development offices are doing, but they always seem a little too good to be true. I've seen this one before and, truthfully, I think it sounds like fiction. Someone could have come up with that one while contemplating what they'd like the universe to be. Personally, I think the kind of control governments that chose to utilize that could have is disgusting. However, as a personal memory device that would allow one to look back at what they did that day, it might be useful. If one really needed one of those, they could get a recording device and talk to it about the events of the day, though. Needless to say, Compaq says they never plan to implement the use of these on the market, so we're in luck as far as privacy issues are concerned.
1) MP3s became popular in the first place only because they allowed for an easy way to pirate music. 2) These rules they want to inforce eliminates that 3) The format is a lossy one and as such is not as great as the wav format for quality, so why bother once the rules are in place 4) if you want cds full of music which is pirated, just change your mp3s to wavs, burn and then use your CD player! 5) jeesh!
Could we not also change the date in our BIOS and elsewhere so that any mp3 that is made in the future has a false date on it and is grandfathered. hmm... I also didn't know that encoders recorded what date an mp3 was made on. oiy.