[d@DCC] Canadian Government funding DRM with Tax Dollars

[Wallace J.McLean]

>  I would love someone to study the effects of music CD copy protection on 
>the reduction of early or impulse purchases of CDs.  If a CD is no longer 
>a commodity that can be trusted to work in any CD player, how much of a 
>reduction in CD sales does this cause?

Not sure about quantified, but this phenomnenon has already been alluded
to in several popular press articles I have seen, where the reporter
expressed healthy skepticism about the figures being fed by the big record
industry.

that, and their insistence that we really, really want to listen to
Britney Spears.
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