Even if you don't watch a programme live, but you set it to record on something like Sky+, a YouView box or TiVo, you still need a licence, because the programme was broadcast live as you recorded it.
However, each time a Bitcoin changes virtual hands, that transaction is recorded digitally on something called a "block chain," which is a public ledger of all Bitcoin transactions.
It can be hard to read something recorded on paper, no matter whether the marks were made by hand with pen-and-ink or by a computerized printer.
He decided that they would sell better with something recorded on them, so he shot a film called "Living in Bondage" about a man who achieves power and wealth by killing his wife in a ritualistic murder, only to repent later when she haunts him.
Hervé will have that recording, too, so he will play it, and then the two customers will start arguing about it, and then Hervé, in his role as a peacekeeping force, will take off the Tabu Ley record and put on something uncontroversial, like the new album "Bang Bang," by Carimi, whose members are Haitian but grew up in Miami.
AVCHD is designed to compress high-def video in camcorders that record on something other than tape -- DVDs, hard drives and so on.
Your aversion to tape has sent electronics companies scurrying to design camcorders that record on something else: miniature DVDs, memory cards, tiny hard drives — or, in the case of Hitachi's new DZH500A ($800) and DZHS300A ($600), all three.
If you have your electronic records on something like the Microsoft Health Vault you are in a position where they can instantaneously pull it up.
"We always wanted to collaborate with him and Third Man Records on something as they have the same spirit of making and love of analog that we do," says Smolokowski.
