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[Drew P.]

On the topic of copyright infringement, Bob mentioned parallel experience in the music industry:

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"I work and my living is made in Copyright Music... We sell Music to
restaurants, Retail stores ect ect. Since the beginning of IPOD's and Music
on the Internet our business has diminished a great deal. Do the FEDS GET
INVOLVED No and Hell no. Do the Copyright agencies like ASCAP AND BMI try to do anything... Yes if it means BIG BIG money like Napster did...Do they get involved with a restaurant playing music...NOPE..."

Well, only sorta'...I know a lady who owns a small coffee shop and sometimes on weekend nights has musicians performing...well...coffeeshop.  Usually a lone guy and his guitar or a singer ticking the ivories on the old piano there and belting out a tune.  Frequently, the performer du jour will cover a copyrighted tune to an audience of almost 10 people...wow!  They hit the big time!

She has had to ask the performers to stop covering tunes.  It seems that she has gotten nastygrams from ASCAP lawyers trying to extract fees from her for hosting public performances of copyrighted material.  She tells the lawyers to go pound sand and they go away...presumably pounding sand...they have bigger fish to fry.

Me? I like to listen to that old music on an SP-600; nice audio quality from that 6V6 output stage (whew, boatanchor tie-in).

Drew