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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <D2150035.o9jc19@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:00:33 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <tal691.727611521@huxley> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) writes:
- >
- > Look, musicians get royalties on their CDs, but not on illegal recordings
- > of their CDs.
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- Actually I believe they do. There is some sort of surtax levied on
- blank cassettes that flows into ASCAP(?) to compensate the artists.
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- This compensates them for people making personal recordings of CDs
- onto cassettes. Bootleg tapes are another animal all together.
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