The problem the recording industry was trying to combat in 1992 was people making physical bit-identical copies of CD's. They failed massively because they didn't predict that home audio cd-recorders would be a complete failure while computer based cd-recorders would be a massive success. That turned out, however, to not be a problem. The issue they are battling now is electronic exchange of compressed music. Audio CD "copy" protection is actual raw-read protection. I'm sure the labels could actually care less about physical copies being made in the US. (East Asia is, of course, a completely different story). They just want to prevent casual users from being able to electronically exchange compressed tracks, a la, Napster.
Isn't the CD-R "tax" only levied on "music" CD-Rs (The more expensive kind that you always pass up for the same brand but cheaper "normal" CD-Rs next to them)? At some point, home audio CD-recorders would only use the "music" CD-R variety, as the sale of those included a royalty payment. I didn't think there was a royalty included on normal CD-Rs.
NVidia does this so that they don't have to maintain multiple driver cores. They use the same core set of code for all OS's and all products, from the TNT to the GeForce2.
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The problem the recording industry was trying to combat in 1992 was people making physical bit-identical copies of CD's. They failed massively because they didn't predict that home audio cd-recorders would be a complete failure while computer based cd-recorders would be a massive success. That turned out, however, to not be a problem. The issue they are battling now is electronic exchange of compressed music. Audio CD "copy" protection is actual raw-read protection. I'm sure the labels could actually care less about physical copies being made in the US. (East Asia is, of course, a completely different story). They just want to prevent casual users from being able to electronically exchange compressed tracks, a la, Napster.
Isn't the CD-R "tax" only levied on "music" CD-Rs (The more expensive kind that you always pass up for the same brand but cheaper "normal" CD-Rs next to them)? At some point, home audio CD-recorders would only use the "music" CD-R variety, as the sale of those included a royalty payment. I didn't think there was a royalty included on normal CD-Rs.
NVidia does this so that they don't have to maintain multiple driver cores. They use the same core set of code for all OS's and all products, from the TNT to the GeForce2.