Board:   [DoveNet] Debate
Subject: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Tue Sep 29, 2026 18:25

Subject: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
@VIA: DIGDIST
  Re: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
  By: bbsing to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 28 2026 08:56 pm

 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.

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

I think there were plenty of cases where people weremaking copies of music CDs and making their own music mix CDs with various songs of their choice.  In the late 90s and early 2000s, I recall it being a popular thing to download MP3s from Napster & such and burn them to audio CDs.

Nightfox

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