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RE: It will be interesting to hear John Atkinson's response

> The move toward renting rather than owning music is already well
> underway, regardless of anything MQA does or does not.

MQA adds this: that to play along, Charles has to put an idiot light on his dacs, and no doubt pay handsomely for the privilege.

> But as long as the unprocessed original PCM files are available for
> download or streaming, I don't see this as a major issue.

241 years ago, Adam Smith made some prescient comments about Meridian/MQA, and backers thereof, in The Wealth of Nations:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Monopolization of the distribution of music that extends down to the kind of devices it can be played on is a bad thing.

Daniel



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