Comments on: Wither audio cassette tapes in 2008? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16538 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reasonable Person http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16538/comment-page-1#comment-678813 Reasonable Person Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:29:26 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16538#comment-678813 I've got a couple of boxes full of analog audio tapes buried somewhere in the depths of a storage room. Quite a few are mix tapes I made for use while driving. This was back when I first got my drivers license and the songs I taped still bring back a lot of good memories. The majority of the songs on these cassettes were usually copied from borrowed sources belonging to friends, family, the library, and even FM radio if there wasn't any other good alternatives available. During that era the term 'copyright' simply wasn't a word most folks were aware of, especially among youths such as myself. Most of us were raised to believe that sharing is caring, which is why back then the swapping of music and video games among friends was commonplace and seen as completely harmless. Not so much today sadly. I’ve got a couple of boxes full of analog audio tapes buried somewhere in the depths of a storage room. Quite a few are mix tapes I made for use while driving. This was back when I first got my drivers license and the songs I taped still bring back a lot of good memories. The majority of the songs on these cassettes were usually copied from borrowed sources belonging to friends, family, the library, and even FM radio if there wasn’t any other good alternatives available. During that era the term ‘copyright’ simply wasn’t a word most folks were aware of, especially among youths such as myself. Most of us were raised to believe that sharing is caring, which is why back then the swapping of music and video games among friends was commonplace and seen as completely harmless. Not so much today sadly.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16538/comment-page-1#comment-644661 Reader's Write Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:25:25 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16538#comment-644661 I kinda wonder how long it will take for the focus to shift to broadband over power lines. If EVERYONE who had power also had an essentially limitless broadband connection, p2p use ( or, more likely, encrypted email use ) would probably become truly staggering. If they were worried about taping then, they better hold on to their hats if powerline broadband day ever comes. I kinda wonder how long it will take for the focus to shift to broadband over power lines. If EVERYONE who had power also had an essentially limitless broadband connection, p2p use ( or, more likely, encrypted email use ) would probably become truly staggering. If they were worried about taping then, they better hold on to their hats if powerline broadband day ever comes.

]]> By: Graychin http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16538/comment-page-1#comment-644469 Graychin Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:18:16 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16538#comment-644469 Berman was testifying in 1987 about <i>digital</i> audio tape, something that never reached the consumer market because of legislation against it. Like today's technologies, DAT could produce perfect, exact copies of music with no degradation. Those cassettes that we all have cluttering a cabinet somewhere are <i>analog</i> tapes, with the "hiss" that your Dolby system helped to mask. Nevertheless, the point of the story remains. Their business model was dying, and their solution was to legislate a ban on DAT. This only shows that they've been riding the same dead horse for over 20 years. Berman was testifying in 1987 about digital audio tape, something that never reached the consumer market because of legislation against it. Like today’s technologies, DAT could produce perfect, exact copies of music with no degradation.

Those cassettes that we all have cluttering a cabinet somewhere are analog tapes, with the “hiss” that your Dolby system helped to mask.

Nevertheless, the point of the story remains. Their business model was dying, and their solution was to legislate a ban on DAT. This only shows that they’ve been riding the same dead horse for over 20 years.

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