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Can't find a better source, but something like this tried to happen, indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music https://en.wikipedia.org
by Lex-2008 6y ago
Can't find a better source, but something like this tried to happen, indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
Upd: In another thread, the "Betamax case" was cited.
- tanseydavid 6y agoDigital Audio Tape DAT -- they tried REALLY hard to keep this technology out of the US market. Eventually they got a the authorities to impose a surcharge per blank DAT tape for 'lost income'. Writable CDs came soon after which was probably going to kill DAT market no matter what.
- ddingus 6y agoTrivia: SGI DAT drives will read and write audio DAT. The CD drives offered "Save Track As" in the default OS.
- betamaxthetape 6y agoSince the original version of DDS tape is basically just DAT tapes being used to store computer data, many of the commercially-available DDS drives could be re-flashed to allow them to read DAT as well. (Re-flashing was necessary to remove the software restriction that otherwise recognised DAT tapes and refused to read them). I'm not going to post any links, but there's plenty of info online.
- ddingus 6y agoIndeed. Really, I was speaking to nice, open computers. Did what people expected out of the box.