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Geoff Geoff is offline
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Default stand alone cd burner?

Dave Platt wrote:

The price differential doesn't need to be high... the AHRA royalty
rate on digital audio recording media is 3% of the transfer price
(think "wholesale"). The retail difference is usually much higher,
but this has a lot more to do with marketing and distribution issues
(and "what the traffic will bear") than it does with the legal
obligation to pay royalty.


Which is, as always, totally whacky cos stand-alone CD Recorders are almost
unversally used to record private stuff, and computer drives do near all of
the copyright-protected copying !

goff