[BC] Copyright and royalties

[Xen Scott]

At 10:03 AM 11/18/05 -0600, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>Xen...how much is your time worth? Granted, someone who makes less than 
>$10/hr can make a whole bunch of these in two hours...the cost of a single 
>retail CD.....

I wasn't thinking so much about the cost but rather the annoyance of 
needing extra special
media to record an analog source using a stand-alone CD recorder.  I'm in 
the same position as
Bob Foxworth.  I have a large quantity of 1/4" open reel tapes that I have 
recorded over
the years for my personal use.  I have no intention of distributing those 
recordings on
CD for profit.  I'm only trying to protect against the loss of access to 
the archival
material because of the difficulty of maintaining old tape machines.

Rather than buy a stand-alone CD recorder with its copyright limitations, I 
acquired an older
used computer that was configured to make audio recordings on data CDs 
using the analog input
to the sound card.  These CDs are copies for my personal use, primarily in 
my vehicle.  So far,
the system works well and does what I need it to do.

Since Bob already owns a stand-alone CD recorder, he has to use royalty 
paid CDs.  My suggestion was to use a royalty paid CD-RW and copy the CD-RW 
to a data CR-R using a computer so that the
CD-RW could be reused in the stand-alone CD recorder.  Thus, only one type 
of blank CD inventory
is needed.

I object to having to maintain two economically different, but technically 
equal, inventories
of blank media.  It hasn't been necessary with older tape media.

Xen Scott