Home recording technology: Killing music and movies for the past 100 years. January 9, 2007
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“I forsee a marked deterioration in American music… and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines…”
~ John Philip Sousa on the Player Piano (1906)“The public will not buy songs that it can hear almost at will by a brief manipulation of the radio dials.”
~ Record Label Executive on FM Radio (1925)“But now we are faced with a new and very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the videocassette recorder.”
~ MPAA on the VCR (1982)“When the manufacturers hand the public a license to record at home…not only will the songwriter tie a noose around his neck, not only will there be no more records to tape [but] the innocent public will be made an accessory to the destruction of four industries.”
~ ASCAP on the Cassette Tape (1982)from EFF Deep Links, June 20, 2006
“It’s certain that bits will never, ever get any harder to copy than they are today. From here on in, barring nuclear holocaust, bits will only get cheaper and easier to copy, period. Anyone who thinks bits will get harder to copy is either not paying attention or kidding himself or kidding you.”
~ Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing (2006)
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