Re: MD: SCMS (apology...)

2000-07-17 Thread J. Coon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dont want to start a thread on this, but I thought that > SCMS was supposed to allow legitimate copying, > but block "illegal" copying. That is the way it should be. However, the way it works is, if you make an anolog recording, you can make only a first generation

Re: MD: SCMS (apology...)

2000-07-17 Thread David W. Tamkin
Ed Wong wrote, | I dont want to start a thread on this, but I thought that SCMS was supposed | to allow legitimate copying, but block "illegal" copying. No, SCMS is supposed to "manage" copying, hence its name. It manages it very poorly, prohibiting some copying that should be allowed and perm

MD: SCMS (apology...)

2000-07-17 Thread Ed . Wong
Point well made I dont want to start a thread on this, but I thought that SCMS was supposed to allow legitimate copying, but block "illegal" copying. Now granted - maybe the SCMS schema itself is flawed (which I would NOT be surprised at), but if SCMS actually worked to block illegal copying