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...digital recording equipment (2%) and blank tapes and disks (3%). The royalties will be distributed to musicians in proportion to their record sales. If okayed by Congress, the draft legislation could provide a boost for digital audiotape and two new formats heading for the market: the digital compact cassette and the recordable mini disk...
...prompting more alarm than ever before. Plans are being made for an unprecedented summit conference in November of the Governors from the seven states served by the Colorado. And almost certain to come up, whether or not it is on the official agenda, is the 1922 Colorado River Compact, the agreement that divvied up the water among the Upper Basin states -- Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico -- and those in the Lower Basin -- California, Nevada and Arizona...
This crucial document facilitated both the astonishing development of the West and the problems that followed as a result. Originally the compact looked like simplicity itself. The Upper and Lower Basins would each receive 7.5 million acre-feet annually. (An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover an acre of land to a depth of 12 in., approximately 325,000 gal. That is enough to fulfill the needs of a family of four or five people for one year.) A 1944 treaty guaranteed an additional 1.5 million acre-feet to Mexico. All fine and dandy, except...
...encouraged as a form of tribute by their fans. But the bootlegging of albums has now become a full-blown, underground industry with millions of dollars in profits and royalties at stake. Tape cassettes remain the bootleggers' format of choice, since the duplicating equipment is relatively cheap, but digital compact discs are gaining ground. "CD is the pirate medium of the future," says Mark Kingston, spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry...
...control the production of bootleg CDs because of the relatively small number (about 115) of disc- manufacturing plants around the world, vs. millions of cassette-dubbing machines. But that advantage may prove fleeting because an array of new formats is poised to enter the market: digital audiotapes, digital compact cassettes and even recordable mini discs. While those formats are likely to contain devices to thwart mass copying, musicians may find that the only way to beat the bootleggers is to drown them out with legitimate material...