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Subject: Re: [OT] DRM OS
To: chris_friesen@sympatico.ca (Chris Friesen)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:30:56 +0000 (GMT)
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> and there will be crypto at every step to try and prevent people from getting at
> the unencrypted bytestream.
> 
> They want to keep us from doing cd/mp3 or DVD/DivX type conversions.

Much more the music industry needs to be sure that nobody else has a viable
means for distributing music, otherwise very soon they run out of artists.
With every 16 year old on the net its rather hard to hide the truth and
actually sign people up into the mainstream record companies

Alan