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multi · 17-03-03, 03:06 AM

Music companies fear new 100-hour discs

The music industry this week condemned the launch of two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc. The launches, from electronics giants Sony and Philips, are being seen as a potential pirates' charter.

"It's a no-brainer. Anything which lets people pirate more music like this has to be very bad news for the music industry," says a spokesman for Britain's record industry....more

TankGirl · 17-03-03, 07:01 AM

Having lost already years of precious adaptation time in pointless fights against p2p services they are bound to fear all technical developments that promise consumers better bandwidths and larger storage media. But everybody knows that this is precisely what we are going to get. Year by year those bits will just keep getting cheaper and faster to download and to store.

It's ironic how even Sony's own technical division has to advice their music division in public to accept the inevitable:

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from the story:
Why Sony should want to launch a recorder that might make piracy easier may seem surprising, as its Sony Music division makes and sells CDs. While Sony Music did not want to comment on its sister company's launch, Mike Tsurumi, a president of Sony Consumer Electronics in Berlin, insists that the move makes sense. "The music companies need to change their business model," he says.

- tg

albed · 17-03-03, 02:01 PM

Music companies fear new 100-hour discs

They're called DVD's

ssj4_android · 17-03-03, 07:25 PM

I already have an MP3/CD player. Also, people can get a 20GB MP3 player. This really isn't new.

JackSpratts · 17-03-03, 11:43 PM

sony started selling a recordable disc in japan last week that holds apx 7200 mp3s or 700 wavs, and not because of some new compression scheme. it’s a super dvd with room for 27 gigs of data - the equivalent of nearly 6 regular dvd's, and they plan on further increasing its capacity (it uses a small wavelength blue laser). toshiba and other manufacturers will be releasing similar discs as well.

while there are at least 2 portable mp3 players on the market with 20 gig capacities, they’re harddrive based and reloading can take forever depending on your transfer speeds. that makes it tough to share your music as well but these new discs are just like normal dvds - recordable, swappable, portable and changeable on the fly. very convenient

- js.

17-03-03, 03:06 AM	#1
multi Thanks for being with arse Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The other side of the world Posts: 10,343	100-hour CD's? Music companies fear new 100-hour discs The music industry this week condemned the launch of two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc. The launches, from electronics giants Sony and Philips, are being seen as a potential pirates' charter. "It's a no-brainer. Anything which lets people pirate more music like this has to be very bad news for the music industry," says a spokesman for Britain's record industry....more __________________ i beat the internet - the end boss is hard Secret Temple of It

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albed flippin 'em off Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the real world Posts: 3,232	Music companies fear new 100-hour discs They're called DVD's __________________ Taking power from the many and giving it to the few corrupts the few and degrades the many.

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17-03-03, 07:25 PM	#4
ssj4_android Redefining Reality Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 406	I already have an MP3/CD player. Also, people can get a 20GB MP3 player. This really isn't new.

17-03-03, 11:43 PM	#5
JackSpratts Join Date: May 2001 Location: New England Posts: 10,017	sony started selling a recordable disc in japan last week that holds apx 7200 mp3s or 700 wavs, and not because of some new compression scheme. it’s a super dvd with room for 27 gigs of data - the equivalent of nearly 6 regular dvd's, and they plan on further increasing its capacity (it uses a small wavelength blue laser). toshiba and other manufacturers will be releasing similar discs as well. while there are at least 2 portable mp3 players on the market with 20 gig capacities, they’re harddrive based and reloading can take forever depending on your transfer speeds. that makes it tough to share your music as well but these new discs are just like normal dvds - recordable, swappable, portable and changeable on the fly. very convenient - js.