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louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) writes:
>>mike@media-lab.mit.edu (Michael Hawley) writes:
>>>Anyone have the driver code to read digital data
>>>from audio CD's using the CD-ROM drive?
>>>Digitizing through the DSP is adequate but silly.
>
>>This is, of course, highly desirable.
>>It's also illegal.

>Please explain why you believe that this is illegal?  It seems to me
>that capturing the digital samples over the SCSI bus is not much
>different in the legal sense than getting them over the serial optical
>interface available on many CD players.  It seems to me that the "fair
>use" provisions of copyright law would permit this for personal use.

>As others have mentioned, you can buy CDROM and DAT drives from SGI
>that allow you access to the sound samples.  If you ask the vendors of
>the drives why they don't make it available, they'll tell you that
>they don't believe there's a market for it.

I believe it is illegal because (so I was told) there is a law against it.
Maybe I'm misinformed, but I don't think so. Remember the big noise when
DAT was first coming out? The music industry was afraid that people were
going to make flawless copies of their wares, and various encoding schemes
were proposed to the gummint boys to make this difficult or impossible.

Yes, there are devices that output digital data, but I believe it is the
case that no *legal* consumer-grade devices are available that will
record those streams. You may ask whether this really makes any sense.
The answer is, of course, "No."

Yes, you can buy peripherals for an SGI that will do this, but that may
be because SGI has persuaded some bureaucrat that it is "professional
equipment", which lives by a different set of rules.

If I'm just flatulating here, somebody please straighten me out.

Steve abell@netcom.com