I am concerned for the rights of those with handicaps such as blindness and how the music industry has made no considerations in allowing the blind community to legally back up their CD libraries to another digital device such as the use of a computer's hard drive. It is my contention that the blind community would experience excessively more scratches to the medium due to their own handicap and therefore exposes them to be required to replace the medium far more frequent than from the sighted community if they wanted to continue to listen to a musician's work.

I am in the process of creating the world's largest Jukebox to demonstrate how through the use of a sizeable hard drive to a computer system, such as a Laptop/Notebook Computer, a blind person would rarely ever need to turn to the original CD that they had earlier purchased again. To date, May 14, 2005, I have been able to build a collection of 3,612 music titles covering 145 artists and amounting to about 275 albums.

I am simpathetic to the music industry's loss of revenue due to theft of their music through file sharing systems that exist on the Internet, but handicapping the handicapped community should not be the way to addressing this problem and I hope to be able to work with the music industry as I have been working with the movie industry to address some of these technology issues.

I want to promote increased sales for all technologies that provide needed services for the handicap community and hope to be able to inspire the music industry to work on this technology with me.