Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> In other words, if you're 
> buying blank CDs and putting them in a music CD recorder, it *must* be 
> because you're trying to illegally copy music. Not because, say, you 
> happen to be a musician and you want to record your performances. :-P

  You just more or less described the situation in Finland.

  Finland doesn't have only one, but *two* versions of "RIAA", independent
of each other, each one extorting money from the same things several times.

  "Fortunately" only one of them is allowed to extort money from recordable
media, including casettes and CD-R's.

  (And these two organizations are not the only ones who will screw you
for even the slightest copyright infringement here. They just are the two
which are allowed by the government to extort money from people. However,
if you ever get sued for copyright infringement, you might end up having
to defend yourself against three or four different organizations. Besides
the original author, of course, assuming the author still has any rights
to his own works, which usually is not the case.)

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                                                          - Warp

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