Popular Electronics did a write up on the Philips Dual-CD Dubbing Deck in their Nov. 1999 issue, the source for my information.
"... Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA), which places restrictions and royalties on its use. Since PCs at the time weren't deemed to be 'audio recording devices',..."
This is why it has only become an issue with PC's lately and why CD-R's and MP3's were such a big deal.
"... The other aspect of the law controls how those copies may be made. It specifies that only a single digital copy can be made form a digital original..."
This has been legally interpreted as meaning that an individual may make as many copies of a media as long it is not a digital copy of a digital copy. Since it is very hard to get your hands on original digital copies of the songs you want to listen to this means you can't make MP3 copies of songs for any reason. The justification for distribution of MP3 files on the internetwas so new artists could cheaply distribute their songs over the internet. They could produce their own digital original (not to hard with an SBLive Platinum and a CODEC), then make as many copies of their digital original as they wanted to. That's why web pages that distribute "Indie" songs ask you to download it from their site and not get it from a friend.
What we don't need is a huge browser that can do everything under the sun. I would be very happy with just the ability to browse html pages and maybe have plugins for all of the assorted multimedia expansions added to web pages over the years. The main point being the main browser, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't need to do an awful lot more then have a display window and a forward, back, stop, refresh, and home button toolbar.
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Popular Electronics did a write up on the Philips Dual-CD Dubbing Deck in their Nov. 1999 issue, the source for my information.
"... Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA), which places restrictions and royalties on its use. Since PCs at the time weren't deemed to be 'audio recording devices',..."
This is why it has only become an issue with PC's lately and why CD-R's and MP3's were such a big deal.
"... The other aspect of the law controls how those copies may be made. It specifies that only a single digital copy can be made form a digital original..."
This has been legally interpreted as meaning that an individual may make as many copies of a media as long it is not a digital copy of a digital copy. Since it is very hard to get your hands on original digital copies of the songs you want to listen to this means you can't make MP3 copies of songs for any reason.
The justification for distribution of MP3 files on the internetwas so new artists could cheaply distribute their songs over the internet. They could produce their own digital original (not to hard with an SBLive Platinum and a CODEC), then make as many copies of their digital original as they wanted to. That's why web pages that distribute "Indie" songs ask you to download it from their site and not get it from a friend.
What we don't need is a huge browser that can do everything under the sun. I would be very happy with just the ability to browse html pages and maybe have plugins for all of the assorted multimedia expansions added to web pages over the years. The main point being the main browser, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't need to do an awful lot more then have a display window and a forward, back, stop, refresh, and home button toolbar.