[MPlayer-users] Re: [MPlayer-users] ASF patenting ?

[Felix Buenemann]

On Saturday 13 July 2002 17:44, dfox wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> > a backup for your children to destory or to hear it in your car. This
> > copy is perfectly legal but you have payed three times for it.
>
> In the US, many record executives would balk at people recording cassettes
> of their LPs to play in their cars -- they expected the record owners
> to buy cassette versions of the albums they already owned.
>
> If CDs were like software, one would be expected to buy a separate CD for
> their home player, their car player, their walkabout player, etc. :(
>
> Data CD's are very inexpensive, but here also in the US if you buy
> blank CD (Maxell, etc.) intended for "audio" use you pay a premium.
same in Germany, data cd-r are very cheap, but audio-cd-r (technically the 
same), contain a GEMA-fee and are 4times or so the price of data cd-r.
-- 
Best Regards,
        Atmos
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