>From: "Peter Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: mp3 availability >Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:37:25 -0500 >Organization: >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The Consumer Electronic Show has just ended. I've been to every one for the >last eight years except this one. My friends across the US report that the >big Jap co.'s are pushing "Discman"-sized mp3 players at the juvenile market >as fast as they can while the FCC's agenda is clogged for months with >pending litigation aimed at crippling the new "Free" technology. Plans for >real mp-3 decks that make a quality recording are waiting at the gate at >Sony, Matshusita, Hitachi, and Aiwa. The FCC's expected ruling will >determine the "Free" nature of mp-3. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken
