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| D.D.: And just pick and choose what they want, right? TIM: Yeah, pick and choose. If they heard a song and said, �I want that song�, or you could make your own record out of things. The CD copiers, stuff out of there, where people want to burn CDs for their friends, you know� D.D.: Yeah, burn your own compilations� TIM: Okay, you could burn CDs all day long.D.D.: Some artists I�ve read about, they don�t like this idea that somebody should be able to just buy one of their songs from a CD. They think, �I�ve done this as a project and I have this collection of songs and I don�t want them broken up�. I guess it�s like some artists have done five or six paintings that all have the same theme, and so they sell those six paintings as a collection and they refuse to sell them individually. TIM: That should be the artist�s prerogative. Pink Floyd didn�t want all the songs from �Dark Side of the Moon� broken up. Any one who makes records that are singles-oriented would benefit from it. D.D.: There�s some kind of new technology out now that Sarah McLaughlin is using � I�m not really sure how it works. It�s really complicated and hard to understand [for someone who is not familiar with technical jargon], but the gist I�m getting is that it�s all electronically-embedded or something and so they are not even producing a physical product and then you just get it transferred to you electronically. Have you heard anything about that? It�s called DMDS (Digital Media Distribution System). It�s some kind of way of transferring�. TIM: You just download it? D.D.: Yeah, there isn�t even any physical product but it�s supposed to guarantee more security so that it can�t be downloaded for free. You do purchase it, they do sell this technology. TIM: How do you listen to it? (continued on next page) |
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