Board:   [DoveNet] Debate
Subject: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Wed Sep 30, 2026 08:43

Subject: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
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Subject: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
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-=> bbsing wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 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.

 Copyright law had something called the "analog hole". You could record
 an album to cassette tape, but you couldn't then practically copy
 another tape from that tape. With digital, you could make unlimited
 copies. Ditto for VHS, as long as you didn't play thecopy for $$$ or
 in a business.

 That did fall short, third world countries would get a cassette or
 album and create many duplicates, I believe they used multi-recording
 rigs with several cassettes recording at once. My college roommate was
 an oil kid- his parents worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia and he'd go
 home over the summer. He'd come back with these pirated cassettes with
 horribly copied cassette labels, with typos and all. They cost the
 equivalent of $.25.



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