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Re: The RIAA loves it
said by rradina  :
Even now, who can stop 10 friends from each buying a CD, using their sound card to digitize the analog signal, compress it to MP3 and then trade it with the others via e-mail, FTP or any old method that the 10 choose to use regardless of what the RIAA, MPAA or law enforcement agencies do? It's completely private, there's no way to track it and unless one of the 10 rats on everyone else, who would know or care?
Exactly. As long as the consumer physically has the CD, or the file, there exists a way to distribute it illegally. All that they can do at this point is make that process more and more inconvenient, so much that "average JOE" can't do it.
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| Even if they don't have the CD, the tape or the file in any manner that they know as a file, unless the RIAA funds some sort of digital cochlear implant into which we plug our music players, something has to eventually decrypt, decode and render an analog signal for our ears.
As soon as that signal is analog, it can be sampled, digitized, compressed and shared.
Is it as good as the original digital source? It won't matter on the average portable consumers buy. | |
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