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[Eugene Lee]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:23:47PM -0500, Vincent Cayenne wrote:
: 
: At 12:14 PM -0500 3/27/04, Alex wrote:
: >
: > <http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/software/cddb_wsj_12.31.01.pdf>
: 
: Thanks for the article. Matter-of-factly, well-written. And I concur 
: with your take on it. I'm sure that I admire the vision and 
: initiative of the originators but I feel certain that the value added 
: by the submitters was significant and "under-rewarded". But then, I 
: suppose one can entertain similar reservations about the business 
: model of efforts like MacFixit, and the purchase of the Deja News 
: Usenet archives, and so on. It seems that we've come to tacitly 
: accept that the aggregator owns the individuals' contributions (and 
: yet avoids responsibility for any downside to that content). Am I 
: ranting yet <g>?

It's worse because CDDB's licensing agreements prevents you from using
any competitor to CDDB.

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Eugene Lee
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