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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. I have a better computer than I thought by preternatural · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess I have a better computer than I thought. All this time I thought I only had one burner, but it turns out that I have the equivelent of 10 burners! Sweet!

  2. Thanks RIAA! by bcliftondotcom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I used to think that I only had one CD-RW drive, since only one CD/CD-R/CD-RW fits inside at any given time. Thanks to the RIAA, I now know that I really have at least 3 or 4 CD-RW Drives! This is the best news that I've heard all day! Thanks RIAA! Your "new math" is awesome!

    I can't wait until next week, when my processor is so fast that Microsoft decides that my single processor is the "equivalent of a quad processor," so that I need Windows 2k Server instead of 2k Pro.

    The stupidity of this amazes me.