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>In article <Bv3o9G.FGw.2@cs.cmu.edu> ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
>>In article <dillon.0o6s@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>    Unfortunately, it is ILLEGAL to store or otherwise process (except to
>>    simply play) the RAW BINARY data from an Audio CD.
>
>I don't believe this is true.  It's silly.
>
>You mean if I have a digital equalizer and use the digital out port of
>a CD player I'm doing something illegal?
>
>If I do it in my own software rather than using a prebuilt componant
>to do it, how is that different?
>
>If I've got both a CD player and a DAT player, and I copy a CD onto
>DAT *FOR* *MY* *OWN* *USE*, that's illegal?  That's not reasonable.
>If I were to copy a CD for someone else, sure, that's piracy and it's
>illegal.

    Welcome to the world of audio-media giants.  The CD players are
    frightened to death that the DAT players will take over the market,
    which is why it has taken so long to get DAT into the US... all sorts
    of delaying lawsuites and positioning going on.

				-Matt

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>Doug DeJulio
>ddj+@cmu.edu

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