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On 02/05/2012 08:02, Mark Cross wrote:
Not forgetting the likes of the Amstrad DD8900 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sACT3emJZmUFOR THE ATTENTION OF: Sarah Wollaston MP Totnes Wednesday 2 May 2012 Mark Cross Totnes RE: Proposed request to ask UK Internet Service Providers to ban access to web sites that facilitate copying of copyrighted material Dear Sarah, Please could you explain the UK government's change in position since the 1980's on the subject above? At the time many tape to tape recording devices were explicitly manufactured for the purposes of copying audio cassettes. These consumer priced items, known at the time as "ghetto blasters" were legally sold on the High Street, by chains of the time, such as Dixons and Currys. No such ban was put in the place to block the retail sale of these devices, please could ask the minister concerned as to what has changed since that time requiring a change in the law? I remember that tape copying was like a rash at school, but somehow, I have accumlated probably 1000 CDs and my cassettes have all been thrown away. Likewise my peers all seem to have vast legally purchased CD collections. Yours sincerely, Mark Cross MBCS CITP
Also, although my own music cassette library is pitiful in comparison to most other people I know, I have all of my cassette albums on MP3 purchased from Amazon, therefore the record label has benefited twice - I won't say the artist since they get such a pitiful fraction of the total cost of each sale.
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