Originally Posted by JerryL
I believe the engineers are usually about 10 years ahead of where the consumer market place is. I think they absolutely knew about open formats and the potential for piracy. Way back in the 70s the software available for the Apple II was copy protected. I find the RIAAs stance here to be both impractical and dishonest, and therefore counterproductive. Thats all.

best regards,
Jerry

When has an impractical stance stopped the RIAA in the past?

As a historical note, when the CD was released the common disk sizes were measured in 10s of MBs so storing CD on hard drive was impossible. Over the years our drive sizes have grown such that uncompressed data can be stored > 1000x over on our hard drives.

When the DVD was released ~10 years ago a 10GB disk wasn't even available so the capacity of the media was (barely) larger than a state of the art disk. 10 years later, it's 1TB. So we've increased by a factor of 100 in the time the medium was released. Size vs. CD ~15:1

When HD-DVD and Blu-ray were released ~9 years after DVD, hard drive size outstripped their capacity by > 10:1 while the generational increase for formats was between 3 and 5 to 1.

It's amazing how quickly we've advanced our mass storage.

Cheers,




Last edited by John Kotches; 2008-01-13 21:33.
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