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Originally Posted by PoorGlory  Also, I seem to recall something about the RIAA collected a small percentage (a secret surcharge, if you will) of all blank cassette sales back in the 80's as a response to worries about piracy, and it still continues to this day with blank media such as CDRs.
Anybody remember what that is called, specifically? I'm pretty certain this still exists with CDRs.... |
The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (google it).
If a CDR is labelled "music," a royalty is collected which goes back to the RIAA and doesn't get redistributed to copyright holders.
If the CDR is labelled "data," no royalty is collected.