> Herbert Graf wrote:
> > > So how exactly, is my ATTEMPT to use USB MP3 players 'not what
> > > USB was meant for'?
> >
> >         The manufacturers require a custom driver and didn't
> conform to the mass
>
> No, they CHOSE to use a custom driver. The device does nothing more than
> decode/encode files that are stored on it.

        Agreed, when I said "require" I meant they require the user to use a custom
driver for their device.

> It may also have to do with licensing FATxx from Microsloth.

        I'm not convinced Microsoft CAN patent FAT. It's been public domain for so
long I don't think their claims would stand up in court. I guess we'll have
to wait and see.

> I tried one player that used SM cards. Couldn't see the card when
> I wrote the file directly to the card. Had to 'format' the card
> in the unit, and
> then shove the file out via their USB program. Of course the card
> wasn't readable
> elsewhere. What a PITA.

        Haven't encountered such a situation. Was it an mp3 player?

> > their equivalent in other countries) are the reason I pay a
> "tax" for every
> > piece of blank media I buy, even though I'm not using it to
> store copyright
> > material (mostly pictures I've taken, backups of my servers, etc.). Of
>
> I have exactly the SAME complaint. And they just raised the rates while
> they're sitting on $61 million that was supposed to go to the ripped
> off Canadian artists. Who the heck is pirating Canadian artists? The big
> ones are all signed up with American distributors.

        Yup. Every time someone asks where the money has gone the "group"
responsible for it says, in essence, the cheque is in the mail. Amazing what
kind of corruption is out there.

> > course in the case of my country it pretty much makes downloading
> > copyrighted music "legal", so I guess there is some benefit.
>
> Here it's now legal to clone CD's for 'personal use'. Transcoding
> to MP3 is technically illegal because strictly speaking, it's no
> longer a 'copy' even if it sounds nearly the same. But you are also
> allowed to make a 'backup' copy of your media, so who knows.

        It puts the whole downloading music issue into a grey area, I don't think
prosecution would work here for downloading copyrighted music, but we won't
know until someone tries it.

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>
> So why doesn't your logic analyser use a USB interface instead of that
> 'legacy' parallel port?? ;}
>
> R

        Actually it uses a serial port. The reason it uses a serial port is it was
designed at a time when my machine didn't have USB, and I didn't run an OS
that supported USB. If I were to design it today I would most definitely use
a USB-serial chip. TTYL

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