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- From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
- Subject: Re: Underground CD copying
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 23:41:12 GMT
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- klp@doe.carleton.ca (Ka Lun Pang) writes:
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- >Hi folks,
-
- >More than one person have told me that some crooks have been making illegal
- >copies of CDs. And one told me that those CDs are worse in fidelity.
-
- >I don't know the details of making a CD but as I understood, there are
- >micro hills and valleys representing 1's and 0's. Now if the bad guys have
- >the technology of manufacturing CD, which part(s) of the process they can't do
- >perfectly to cause degradation in fidelity?
-
- It's not hills and valleys, but more like a series of potholes. The
- infidelity would come from their source material (for example, they
- might take a cassette recording and make a CD master with it). The
- CD media cost in any volume is around 90 cents each, so with no
- royalties, no performance fees, it would be pretty lucrative!
-
- Dave
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