... if the manufacturers realised that live digital ...
Quite so! 98 % or more of the MD users I know, use it primarily for more or less professional (field) recording of 'original' material, not for consuming illegally copied music.
AKS
ps check your PMs, Dave, there's supposed to be one from me about MDs with digital out.
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