Board:   [DoveNet] Debate
Subject: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age
From:    bbsing
Date:    Mon Sep 28, 2026 21:56

Subject: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
@VIA: LUNAROUT
  Re: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to bbsing on Mon Sep 28 2026 07:48:00

 PF> In the USA, the recording industry negotiated a fund to be created from a
 PF> charge on blank media produced, with the assumption that the only reason
 PF> for recordable media was to pirate copyrighted music. Buy a CD-R for data
 PF> backup or OS installation? You're paying the RIAA.

Does that totally make sense when considering blank tapes. People could put their personal recordings on CD-R, voice or music, not just data. I thought CD-R and CD-RW was aboutmedia, kinda like floppy disc, or zip drive, it was just another media storage platform for storage and or distribution.
BBsing, Sysop of Lunar Outpost, lunarout.sycnhro.net

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