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Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy

Posted by michael on from the double-your-pleasure dept.

Bowie J. Poag notes this Register story about an RIAA copyright infringement bust in New York. The RIAA claims the operation had the equivalent of 421 CD-burners, which, translated from RIAA-speak, means "156 CD-burners but some of them were fast". How they expect anyone to take their statistics seriously is beyond me.

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  1. My CDR is really slow... by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...does that mean I have half a cd burner?

  2. This is the equivilant of 40 first posts, isn't it by miguel_at_menino.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the equivilant of 40 first posts, isn't it?

  3. Does this mean... by Have+Blue · · Score: 5, Funny

    If we pirate 1,000 songs but all of them were crap, we're innocent?

  4. perhaps they used the same math.. by spazimodo · · Score: 5, Funny

    that gave us 2002-1900 = 100th Anniversary of Quantum Physics

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    1. Re:perhaps they used the same math.. by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, it comes from the same rule that says 2+2=5 for large values of 2.

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  5. RIAA Math: Add more examples here... by dagg · · Score: 5, Funny
    Example #1:
    One library of congress = 29 trillion (in british units) copyright violations.
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  6. Statistics? by pi+radians · · Score: 5, Funny

    How they expect anyone to take their statistics seriously is beyond me.

    Who, the RIAA's or The Register's?

    (ba-dum-bum-cha!)

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  7. You see... by WickedClean · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is mathematics like this that allow companies such as Worldcom and Enron to cook their books.

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    1. Re:You see... by MulluskO · · Score: 5, Funny

      It is mathematics like this that allows an Italian bistro to travel through space.

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  8. So does this mean... by badasscat · · Score: 5, Funny

    So does this mean that if I pay twice as much as I should for a CD (as we all do with the industry's fixed pricing) that I've really bought the equivalent of two CD's?

    1. Re:So does this mean... by brandorf · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it just means you've bought the right to listen to it in stereo.

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  9. I have three cars!!! by erroneus · · Score: 5, Funny

    In accordance with the RIAA logic, I can now beat any speeding ticket by claiming to have the equivalent of more than one car! For example, if I were busted doing 60 in a 20, I can claim I have three cars. After all, it's 3x faster than the average driver travels through such a zone. Stands to reason that I simply have the equivalent of 3 cars driving at a legal speed and therefore I am innocent.

    Yeah... I think that'll work...

    Would someone PLEASE bust them for lying. I can't even consider this "spin doctoring." You can't make a claim with any amount of seriousness that a "fast" cd writer is the equivalent of two or more "average speed" drives. I can't decide which is worse: Scientology or the RIAA.

    1. Re:I have three cars!!! by richie2000 · · Score: 4, Funny
      I can now beat any speeding ticket by claiming to have the equivalent of more than one car!

      I do so NOT want to pay insurance for the truckload of motorcycles I would have to claim... I'd rather just pay the fines (or "fun tax" as I like to call them. :-)

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  10. What's next? by SpookyFish · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now if I gnutella on a T3 am I suddenly stealing 28x the music because it's "really fast"?!

    Just another sign of these idiots' attempts to ignore the progress of technology out of sheer stupidity and too much laziness to develop new business models that embrace it.

  11. Or equivalently... by efuseekay · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have 800 CD burners, but most of them are slow.

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  12. Re:421 !=156 by haggar · · Score: 5, Funny

    As much as I respect Disraeli (beyond this very famous phrase), I think these are not even statistics. The RIAA just looks like a bunch of fucking morons.

    Sorry for the language.

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  13. $90 Million Anually by Malicious · · Score: 5, Funny
    So, if they cost the industry $90 million, assume they were selling their CD's for 1/3rd the cost of Retail, Minus expenses... these guys would have made roughly 10 MILLION dollars. Why do they have less than 200 Fast CD burners?

    Doesn't add up. RIAA's math skills should be used to power interstellar space ships.

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  14. Old wine in new bottles by isomeme · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought this sort of math was only applied to drug busts.

    "We estimate the marijuana had a street value of 4.5 million dollars."

    (Yes, if you sold it one eighth at a time to desperate, confused rich people.)

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  15. RIAA and reproduction by Cheese+Cracker · · Score: 5, Funny

    A man who fucks for 15 minutes before delivering the cream to the woman, result in a baby.

    Therefor, a man who fucks for 5 minutes before delivering the cream to the woman, must result in triplets.

    Of course, we're just talking about successful cases here... and I don't want to think about the poor guys who comes after 30 seconds...

  16. Re:Yeah.. by mstyne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Glad I did, they are awesome.

    Are you serious?

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  17. MP3 over P2P by stud9920 · · Score: 5, Funny

    does MP3/P2P equal (1.5M)/P ?

  18. More numbers by nusuth · · Score: 4, Funny
    The number of burned CDs were actually 22000. But some were overburned, a few as high as 800MB/cd, which is very uncommon. Also those 10000DVDs were actually 15000CDs but they were high quality divx rips, so essentially they were DVDs.

    And those three individuals were actually fifty four guys but they have rights equivalent of three normal citizens.

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  19. Re:This is the equivilant of 40 first posts, isn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hilary Rosen is the equivalent of 22 regular greedy corporate whores

  20. Yes, but more importantly.... by AmazingRuss · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...at midway through a burn, is your cd half empty or half full? If you are burning it in an empty house, and the burn hoses up, and you scream, does anybody hear? Honestly, I think those RIAA folks are doing the more of the good drugs their talent does.

  21. Re:where are we headed.. by DreamingReal · · Score: 4, Funny
    Read the article -
    raided a major music piracy operation in New York City, leading to the capture of 35,000 finished CD-Rs, 10,000 DVDs, the equivalent of 421 CD-R burners and the arrest of three individuals.
    While I agree with your point, make sure you know the facts before making it... otherwise you'll look like the RIAA. :)

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  22. That's 2947 in Dog CD Burners. by TrebleJunkie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Woof!

    (I know. It's bad. I'm sorry.)

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