Anyone noticed the iTunes DRM noose tightening? iTunes won't burn SDII files to CD anymore, and it won't import CD audio burned on another iTunes computer. The number of times you can burn a playlist is dropping, and it won't tell you if it won't burn a playlist, it just burns a disc with no audio.
All I know is when I got my first mercury alkaline batteries in 1966 to power my Ross 3 inch reel-to-reel tape recorder, they lasted over 2 years with daily use! the second set lasted about 6 weeks. I think batteries are like light bulbs, there's no profit in making them well
I hate to break the news, but we've been paying the same tax since the mid 1980's. Al Gore was one of the sponsors of a digital revenue bill that passed back then. As a studio owner in Nashville, I got a copy of the bill before it was passed. It levied a tax on all blank media, not just digital, and a tax of up to $100. on all digital recorders imported into the US. I don't know if that's the final version that passed, but it did pass. one phrase that stuck out to me was that the revenues generated would go into a pool which would be split up among artists "after due administrative costs have been deducted".
All I know is that I've paid that tax on every cassette, DAT, reel of tape, and CD-R that I've used since then, even though my business(radio commercials) involves only releasing content created by me.
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Anyone noticed the iTunes DRM noose tightening? iTunes won't burn SDII files to CD anymore, and it won't import CD audio burned on another iTunes computer. The number of times you can burn a playlist is dropping, and it won't tell you if it won't burn a playlist, it just burns a disc with no audio.
All I know is when I got my first mercury alkaline batteries in 1966 to power my Ross 3 inch reel-to-reel tape recorder, they lasted over 2 years with daily use! the second set lasted about 6 weeks. I think batteries are like light bulbs, there's no profit in making them well
I hate to break the news, but we've been paying the same tax since the mid 1980's. Al Gore was one of the sponsors of a digital revenue bill that passed back then. As a studio owner in Nashville, I got a copy of the bill before it was passed. It levied a tax on all blank media, not just digital, and a tax of up to $100. on all digital recorders imported into the US. I don't know if that's the final version that passed, but it did pass. one phrase that stuck out to me was that the revenues generated would go into a pool which would be split up among artists "after due administrative costs have been deducted". All I know is that I've paid that tax on every cassette, DAT, reel of tape, and CD-R that I've used since then, even though my business(radio commercials) involves only releasing content created by me.