Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 12 2004 @ 12:52 PM CST

\"50 Cent said \"let them know who this kid is because I am going to take his lunch and take away his car,\'\" Iovine said.

I\'m going to take 50 Cent\'s big ass teeth...marginally talented asshole.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 12 2004 @ 12:54 PM CST

For more info on this subject:

www.againsttcpa.com

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 12 2004 @ 12:57 PM CST

\"HP declares war on sharing culture\"

is that war on the culture of sharing, or the sharing of culture?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 12 2004 @ 01:07 PM CST

Maybe HP should quit selling CD/DVD piracy hardware, then?
It\'s almost as laughable as Sony\'s both side of the fence problems.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13 2004 @ 01:24 AM CST

Fiorina\'s reference to their consumer products reminds me of the story of RDAT...

RDAT was originally developed as a consumer stereo digital recording format, and introduced as such in Japan.

The RIAA kept RDAT machines out of the US for a few years by threatening to sue importers.

But, recording engineers wanted a digital mixdown format that didn\'t cost as much as a decent analog 24-track machine (at the time, the only 2-track digital options were a very few, very expensive reel-to-reel machines and the Sony PCM1630- also very expensive and a pain in the ass to operate). So, the RIAA relented in the case of \"professional\" machines.

Suddenly, every RDAT manufacturer was slapping a set of +4 balanced analog I/Os on a consumer machine and selling it as a \"professional\" product. It wasn\'t long before prices were down to a point comparable to a decent semi-pro analog stereo reel-to-reel.

To this day, \"professional\" RDATs either ignore SCMS coding altogether or allow the user to set the SCMS bits it records arbitrarily; the \"professional\" digital interconnection format, AES-3, doesn\'t transmit copy control information at all.

The dire predictions of massive, commercial bootlegging due to the introduction of RDAT never materialized; the impact of RDAT was mainly to provide the \"little guys\" in the industry with an affordable digital mixdown machine.

Trying to differentiate between \"consumer\" and \"professional\" hardware just serves to set up a money barrier against creators who want quality reproduction but haven\'t a big player budget. One wonders if the same artificial divide will be implemented in the computer world.

If so, look out for \"professional\" computers that are really just mildly upgraded consumer boxes, and for the price eventually to be within reach of the serious audio amateur or basement studio.

Next time, I\'ll tell ya the story of Copycode- another badly failed attempt to stop people from taping their albums to play in their car or their Walkman...

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13 2004 @ 09:20 AM CST

Well it seems HP has now drawn their lines and picked their sides.

Companies who sell what the market demands will be especially successful selling devices that allow you to by-pass any digital rights management/copyright protection schemes.

Whoever decides to start up a company that makes a product similiar to an iPOD, that is integrated into a \'free-for-all\' file sharing service like SoulSeek/BitTorrent/KAzaa, and is cheaper, should do rather well.

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