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March 27, 2002

How the CBDTPA will hurt independent musicians

Over at the Walkingbirds site, I make all of the music I write available in MP3 format, for free.

If the CBDTPA becomes law, there may come a time when the computer, MP3 player or other device you use to make copies of my songs will be illegal. Even if I give you explicit permission to do so.

There may even come a time when the equipment I use will be forbidden, by law, to produce copyable MP3 files.

Heck, there may even come a time when I can’t put any more Walkingbirds songs out on the Web at all, unless I pay Microsoft, Disney or AOL/Time Warner a fee.

These are the types of unintentended consequences I’d sure like us to avoid.

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