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Even after this law was shot down, the RIAA still threatened to sue anyone who released an affordable consumer DAT recorder in the US. No one made such a recorder available.

Finally, in 1992, the RIAA and the electronics companies compromised by passing the [[Audio Home Recording Act]]. In this law, blank digital media (including DAT tapes) would be taxed, with the money going to the RIAA, and a new copy protection scheme, SCMS, would be enforced. Blank analonganalog media, such as cassette tapes, were not subject to the tax. SCMS was compulsary in digital media because there is zero deterioration of quality from copy to copy. SCMS was universally disliked by home musicians who used DAT decks to record their own music; it obtained the unfavorable name "Scums".

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