From artist Sent Fri, Apr 16th 1999, 06:26
From artist Sent Fri, Apr 16th 1999, 06:26
> the way things are going now is that the record industry is > trying to come up with a way to proprietize digital/streaming media, so that > the only way to listen to bitwise music will be to use a program that controls whether > you are able to save a copy on your hard drive or pay for each listen. this has already failed. there are many soundcards (such as the soundblaster live) that allow you to digitally re-route the output of your wave player back into the card (without loss of quality) so you can record /anything/ as a wave file. plus programs like virtual audio cable, etc etc.. pay per listen will never happen. <waves>