[BC] Court rejects RIAA's 'making available' piracy argument

[Alan Kline]

I don't recall the source, but ISTR reading that the only difference 
between "data" and "music" CD's is that the latter has a data flag set 
to tell the standalone recorder that it's a legal "music" CD. I 
generally set my record speed slower than the max, but that's due to the 
fact that I'm usually doing something else on the machine while burning 
the disc--that way, the HD can keep up with the burner.

I've never had trouble burning music to data CD's reliably, and given 
that most of what I burn is public-domain old-time-radio programs, I'm 
not about to pay tribute to the RIAA...

ak

tosenkowsky at prodigy.net wrote:
>> IF you're silly enough to BUY a "music" CD... I believe the only time 
>> you HAVE to use a "music" CD is if you have a dedicated CD Recorder - 
>> one that's not part of a general-purpose computer system.  A computer's 
>> CD-R/RW drive will burn music CDs onto a "data" CD just as easily as a 
>> "music" CD - and will have the same expected service life. 
> 
> We were unable to burn reliable music on a data CD
> using a HHB CD burner. The laser is not powerful enough
> to burn on a data CD. Music CD's burn fine. Anything
> greater than X4 will not burn correctly.