Anything that looks forward and is innovative should not be dismissed. Techno is built on innovation… FS falls in that category.

As a technology its the shit.. I have it set up in the studio and it’s never crashed or faulted once. Its like anything else in the PC world.. you have to know the right gear and how to set it up or its not going to work. (Next person I hear saying PC's suck who is using a crap MBoard and stock ram, etc..is going to get the back of my hand!) Like any new technology, there are kinks to work out. It all just takes time to get over the transition pains. The unplug/plugging-in mid party is the the main issue. However in time, this (or a similar digital technology) will be the standard and the world will be a wonderful place where we carrying only carry a ?pod and a set of phones. (BTW, For plugging in - The best solution is to carry a minidisk with a opening track and plug that into a open line... that way you can _uck around setting it up while that strokes the crowd (and not have to worry about skipping the previous DJ's needel!)).

Beyond hardware, copyright issues are the biggest thing to overcome. In the best case world, there would be an iron locked unbreakable format that everyone could sell right from their own web site. It would be the “Perfect Buisness Model”. However, with MP3's as available as they are.. that model fails and… a world with FS installed in every club still using copyable mp3's would mean death to sales.

I think the music industry should invest all this money they are spending on lawyers to make that new audio format. I know 'anything' can be hacked and broken…. But….. if its made tough enough so that 95% of the people would stop from searching for that underground copy, I think it would be successful.

Hey Henry.. If you want to check out FS, next time your in Venice come by the old party pad (turned romper room) and check it out.

-G