Greetings, If CD / music publishers decide they want to set the SCMS status of their dicks to no digital transfer, then wouldn't it be worthwhile for the hardware only manufacturers to produce consumer grade decks which ignore SCMS? This will undoubtedly be illegal in certain countries but couldn't it become a bit like the shortwave radio / scanner market where the models come in numerous variations due to individual countries' laws. Where SCMS laws are different which they must be in different countries, why not have decks which ignore SCMS. Here in Britain is perfectly legal for shops to sell and for consumers to buy radios which have unlimited receive coverage, in any mode. A 150KHz to 1650MHz scanner with AM, FM, LSB, USB is perfectly legal to sell, buy, and own. The only catch is that it is illegal to use it other than to listen to broadcast stations and radio hams. You break the law *every time* you tune out of certain narrow frequency bands. The law is stupid!!! Actually there's quite a few things to do with radio transmission that is legal to both sell and buy in Britain but illegal to use. What do they think we do with these things? Look at them?!!!!! Similarly with telephones too! I know Germany and many other countries restrict coverage on both scanners and shortwave radios for legal reasons, isn't it just possible that quite a lot of countries would consider SCMS legality irrelevant and allow decks to automatically defeat it. An ex-work colleague I knew visited Brunei each year and copyright law there was non-existent. Any computer software you wanted costed the price of a CD-R plus a nominal copying charge! So to come to the point, why don't companies without a CD distribution interest produce models of digital recorders (inc. MD of course) which ignore SCMS and distribute them to places where that is legal? Then we could import from that country and take our chances if the recording lawyers come knocking on our door. The twin combo of "SCMS no-copy" discs and the US making strippers illegal could potentially destroy MD just as it is really taking off. I don't visit strip joints but guys, I think this SCMS no-copy thing is a serious problem to the further mainstream acceptance of MD. My father (64) is now an MD fanatic and loves his JE-520, titling tracks once copied from CD with no problems at all. He was gonna go for a MIDI system with tape/CD but I converted him :-) There's probably 100K+ guys in "developed" countries who will buy into MD but only if THEY CAN COPY DIGITALLY-- MAKE A MD FROM A CD. Let's all support this campaign against V2 and show everyone we *WILL NOT TOLERATE CD's WHICH HAVE BEEN DELIBRATELY SET TO FINAL* in fact we will firebomb their offices and warehou... ignore that last bit please, I'm a peace-loving guy and wouldn't like violence of any sort. You know me. Cheers, PrinceGaz -- "Seriously guys, peaceful protests always work better. No petrol bombs please!!!! Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://website.lineone.net/~princegaz/ ICQ: 36892193 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
