Tapes and CD's (Score 2)

The logical track would be to see an increase in cassette sales, and dual cassette/CD car decks as people would use casettes to record their own personal mix of music while using th CD player for the originals. I'm also curious how this would affect the music industry as sampling is quite popular. In order to continue this practice among it's artists these same music companies would have to come up with a method for people to still digitally sample and still maintain the copy protection. Or else they would be shooting themselves in the foot. I also suppose that this would not be available to smaller independent artists, who can't afford suites like cool edit pro. Digital copying is used for so much more than just pirating songs and personal collections that the music industry would be stifling more people with this than they would gain. I expect the lost profits would be greater from the lack of new music or ideas gained from sampling, than it would ever be from revenues lost to pirates.