"I have to agree with mrlinux, I know everyone was copying music on tapes from friends long before mp3's and the internet, and before that people would lend their records to friends, so what has changed?"
It was perfectly legal to tape your friends records because every single blank tape included (and probably still includes) a "piracy" surcharge that went to the "industry" to distribute. Now only blank "audio" CDs include that surcharge. Non-computer consumer CD Recorders won't work with anything but "audio" blanks. There have been efforts to apply such a surcharge to computer CDs, HDDs, and etc., but because there are too many other ways to use these items those efforts have been unsuccessful.
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