By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
"The MP3 and all the little things that the boys and girls have in their pockets ... can replace it, absolutely," says Mr. Kramer, the retired engineer.
Yet it was a risky technical endeavor to attempt to bring digital audio to the masses, says Pieter Kramer, head of the optical research group at Philips' labs in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
