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

[Harold Hallikainen]

>> 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.

I've heard that record companies get a royalty on "music CD" blanks. Is
that so? Anyone know where it is in the US Code? And, if they DO, it seems
that we are then paying a license fee and can make as many copies as we
want, right? Or, what ARE we paying for?

Harold


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