The US recording industry actually tried several times to impose a protective royalty / tax on blank tapes! The money was supposed to go into a fund to be divided among recording artists and especially, studios, through a system like ASCAP and BMI.
They first wanted to put a tax an audio cassettes in the 1960's. Later they wanted to impose the same royalty on video tapes. Ya know that the only reason people buy those things is to make copies of copyrighted works, right?
Imagine, if they had gotten away with it, you have paid a royalty to Michael Jackson for the right to use the tape that you recorded your baby's first words on. Luckily. at least in those days, the RIAA didn't get what they wanted.
CD will come with a sticker that notifies the consumer that it is copy-protected and warns about possible playback problems. An insert in the jewel case provides a toll-free number for consumers and a Web site, where they can get more information.
Universal told retailers that it would honor refunds on all returned discs -- even for CDs that have been opened.
RETURN THE CD to the store! After you rip it, of course.
If enough CD buyers vote with their returns they won't be putting copy protection on CDs for long.
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The US recording industry actually tried several times to impose a protective royalty / tax on blank tapes! The money was supposed to go into a fund to be divided among recording artists and especially, studios, through a system like ASCAP and BMI.
They first wanted to put a tax an audio cassettes in the 1960's. Later they wanted to impose the same royalty on video tapes. Ya know that the only reason people buy those things is to make copies of copyrighted works, right?
Imagine, if they had gotten away with it, you have paid a royalty to Michael Jackson for the right to use the tape that you recorded your baby's first words on. Luckily. at least in those days, the RIAA didn't get what they wanted.
CD will come with a sticker that notifies the consumer that it is copy-protected and warns about possible playback problems. An insert in the jewel case provides a toll-free number for consumers and a Web site, where they can get more information.
Universal told retailers that it would honor refunds on all returned discs -- even for CDs that have been opened.
RETURN THE CD to the store! After you rip it, of course.
If enough CD buyers vote with their returns they won't be putting copy protection on CDs for long.