Originally Posted by gecko

DAT was murdered - the record companies were scared that people making perfect digital copies would cut into their business, so they forced the manufacturers to put in a no-copy flag, that is, to cripple the machines. This only applied to consumer-grade hardware. Professional-grade DAT machines were quite successful; they were obvioulsy much more expensive. There's a very long list of technolgies that the record companies have tried to kill, starting with radio in the 20s (why would anyone buy records if they could hear the music for free on the radio?), and reel-to-reel tape recorders inthe 50s (the reason that announcers started talking over the beginnings and endings of songs. They usually didn't succeed, but they did kill DATs.

Oh, I assumed that "Snow" means a cocaine freak, and I don't care about the gender (except for grammatical purposes), or about the drug, either, for that matter. But I guess the name could refer to something worse, like dandruff.