On 4 Feb 2007 at 16:14, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > On 2/4/07, dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anything which can make it to the soundcard can be recorded, so > > preventing the actual downloading of an audio file won't prevent > > people from pirating it. > > That's very true, > > But Vista was going to prevent capturing sound via this method, but > the hardware didn't develop. But given the stakes for piracy (at least > for the RIAA and anyone else worried about piracy, you can be sure > that in the future, they'll find a way to block your even doing this.
And this is an absolutely *terrible* thing, because it is going to impinge on legitimate purposes for sound capture as much as it ends what the RIAA and other content owners consider illegitimate. In the age of digital media and end-to-end DRM, there won't be any fair use at all -- because it will be technologically prevented. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
