Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy

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.

Comments

Doublemint Cd Burners?

[puto]

Double the Speed, Double Your Burn?

Jesus Harold Christ on a Rubber crutch. This is getting outta control.

This is as bad when they catch some poor kid with a ound of weed and it becomes a major bust worth over "2,000,000" dollars.

156=421 due to speed times?

Anyway, I hope some of these were professional duplicators. They are cheap and fast. I cant imagine having to handload 156 burners.

Puto

Re:The register needs to check its facts

[NineNine]

The Register checking facts would be like Slashdot not duplicating articles. It ain't gonna happen.

Re:The register needs to check its facts

[devleopard]

No kidding. Is the author of the article a complete idiot? I realize that in the world journalism, such traditions as "fact checking" are considered unimportant, but entering "history of secret service" into Google returns www.secretservice.gov/history.shtml as the first result! Then again, it is the Reg, and since they're British, they don't have to know anything about other countries they write about, right? I mean, I can write about the monarchy based on soundbytes off of the evening news, right? We all know that all they do is drink tea and plan their next publicized divorce!

Re:The register needs to check its facts

[Zemran]

Maybe they were daft enough to check their facts with the US Secret Service who for some obscure reason list protecting the President & Vice President as their first task. I realise that anyone dumb enough to think that the Secret Service knows more about what they do than you, deserves ridicule but hey, that's good old American arrogance for you.