do you feel they would change IASCA's position?

In a word.... No.

Not unless there could be some way of verifying that the .wav file played on the empeg (forget about even thinking about MP3 files!) was byte for byte identical with the .wav file on the original CD. This verification would have to be both fast and unhackable.

In other words, it isn't going to happen anytime soon.

tanstaafl.

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