If you extrapolate that far enough, you could easily consider a zip drive or even a floppy diskette a potential piracy tool that requires an SCMS implementation. I can see it now: "RIAA sues Toshiba"...

I think you underestimate the RIAA, Tony. In articles I have read on wired.com, RIAA has held the explicit position that recording a song from CD onto your hard drive in MP3 format is a violation of copyright law and act of piracy. RIAA says that they simply have not chosen to prosecute such acts at this time.

Corby
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