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Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Jan 19 20:08:41 2001
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:04:59 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, Ron Rivest <rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
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John Gilmore wrote:
> Few or no manufacturers are willing to put ordinary
> digital audio recorders on the market -- you see lots of MP3 *players*
> but where are the stereo MP3 *recorders*? They've been chilled into
> nonexistence by the threat of lawsuits. The ones that claim to
> record, record only "voice quality monaural".
Which is ironic, because there's any amount of free software out there
that will do it. We don't need their steenkin' MP3 recorders. :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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