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how does that work, if you spend 3 or 4 hundred bucks on one of those good
ones that's usable for radio applications, maybe then scms is defeatable.
At 03:07 AM 2/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>LAS wrote:
>
>> "J. Coon" wrote:
>> > If you made a recording to MD with microphones, it is an analog
recording, and
>> > it will allow a digital copy to be made from it. However, if you make
a digital
>> > copy of the MD to another MD, the SCMS bits will be set to not allow
another
>> > digital copy to be made.
>> >
>>
>> That's absolutely correct, Jim. And it is wrong that you should not be
able to make
>> a digital copy of a copy of your own music. Suppose you decided to
record some
>> sessions that you band made. You should not be limited by SCMS.
>
>Yep, I agree and I ran into the very same problem. The way the law is
written, really
>sucks.
>
>> But the question that I have is this. Since ATRAC is a lossy technique,
would you
>> start to notice the degradation in sound quality on the first copy (second
>> generation) MD? Or would it go undetected to the human ear for several
copies of
>> copies??
>
>I have a recording that I think is about 5th genereation. It is on a
sample MD the I
>gor from a list memeber some time ago. He recorder various test signals
on it and made
>several generations of copies. It was hard to tell the difference from one
copy to the
>next until you got past 5 generations, as I recall. I think the MD is still
>available. It was mentioned on the MD comunity page.
>
>>
>>
>> Because I do not have an MD recorder that is capable of defeating SCMS
there is no
>> way that I can test this theory myself.
>>
>> Has anyone ever experimented with this?? I know that Eric W. has a
recorder that
>> can bypass SCMS.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Larry
>>
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