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• On the post: The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Analog Era

  

  pjcamp ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 09:43am

  Re: Re: Re: 8 track

  I lived through that era. This is correct. And it is responsible for the two most annoying factors that were actually what killed off the 8 track: a complicated tape transport mechanism that tended to snarl and terminate your investment, and a tendency to switch tracks in the middle of a song.
  
  Cassettes fixed both of these problems at the minor inconvenience of having to reverse the tape direction. Some had auto reverse, some didn't. Those that did were marginally less reliable.
  
  They each shared the eternal problem of any cheap tape: a dramatically compressed dynamic range which tailed off at less than 15 kHz. The resulting loss of highs always made them sound muffled.

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  pjcamp ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 10:31am

  RICO

  Nobody intended RICO to be used against ordinary citizens either, but it is now the tool of choice in law enforcement. In many jurisdictions, confiscation of assets prior to trial is treated as just another form of taxes.

• On the post: Mixed Messages: US Talks Of Cleaning Up 'Rogue' Internet… While Underwriting Censorship-Proof Shadow Internet

  

  pjcamp ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2011 @ 08:01am

  Silly American

  Freedom is not for you.

• On the post: MPAA Attacks Demand Progress With Ridiculous & Unsubstantiated Claims

  

  pjcamp ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 10:00am

  I signed it

  As far as I know, I'm not a fake.

• On the post: How Out Of Control Copyright Law Is Keeping Millions Of Books & Images Away From Scholars

  

  pjcamp ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 09:44am

  Disney . . .

  . . . is a foreign country?

• On the post: Senator Schumer Says Bitcoin Is Money Laundering

  

  pjcamp ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2011 @ 09:48am

  Schumer is the Senator from Wall Street. Anything that leaves Goldman-Sachs out in the cold is a Threat To Life As We Know It.