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I make a lot of recordings of my band's rehearsals. We play original compositions, so if anybody owns copyrights to this music it is my bandmembers and me! That's why I am extremely annoyed by all the industry's efforts to make recording music difficult and/or expensive. The CD-R drive in my computer happily records music on ordinary-data blank CD-R disks. However, I wish I could use a hi-fi CD recorder, because its A/D converter would be vastly superior to a Sound Blaster card in my PC. Unfortunately, CD recorders take only special audio CD-R disks, where you pay extra for artists' protection. But hey, I am the artist in this case! There has never been a more stupid scheme in the audio industry. I also make compilations of songs from various CDs to one CD-R so that I can listen to recordings featuring a particular drummer or guitarist. I did pay for all the CDs in the first place, and yet what I do is supposedly illegal. Well, shoot me then. Martin Bruczkowski bruczko@pacific.net.sg