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Steven C. Barr wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard L. Hess" [log in to unmask] > >>It's interesting that the recorded media has pushed copyright far >>more than the print media ever did. >> > > Simple...in this day and age it is much easier to make an effectively > exact copy of a sound recording than a printed document (although I > think there were attempts to "pirate" the Harry Potter books before > their relase?)... In the classic sense, "Follow the money". The cost of photocopying a conventional book is seldom much less than the cost of buying it. The cost of copying a CD or DVD is only a few percent. of the cost of the original. An unbound duplicate of a book is far less valuable than the original in practice; an unpackaged duplicate of a CD or DVD is of only slight less value than the original; in fact, where 'protection' is used to complicate duplication and to make the original unreadable in some players, the duplicate may be worth more than the original. Mike -- [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/