CDs are made by being pressed from a mold, while CD-Rs and CD-RWs are made by burning the information to the disc with a laser. Though they are not physically identical, they work just the same. However, you cannot record to pressed CDs, only to CD-R/RW discs.
Joel Tenenbaum, RIAA’s Public Enemy No. 1 Congratulations, RIAA, for prevailing in a court case that will do nothing to stop piracy and continue to turn the public against you. The Supreme Court refused earlier this month to hear the case of Joel Tenenbaum, a former Boston University student with a PhD in statistics, who was ordered to pay $675,000 for the crime of downloading 30 songs. If you end up bankrupting him, you’ll get lots of publicity, but not the kind you’re looking for. I suggest you check with your members’ kids and see how many songs they and their classmates download. Wouldn’t that be a great lawsuit? Suing the kids who illegally download music is as stupid as suing the people who download content on Androids because Google “stole” Apple’s patents. Apple isn’t stupid. It’s suing Google, not its own customers. You can argue that Apple, too, is shooting itself in the foot and simply inviting scores of counter-suits, but at least its not hurting its own customer base. So if you have to sue someone, sue the guys who profit by selling your songs illegally, the companies that maintain massive caches of “pirated” songs, the Internet companies that allow consumers to freely pass songs back and forth, even colleges like Boston University that allowed Tenenbaum and thousands of other students to store and sends songs on their high-speed networks. That won’t make much of a dent in the piracy problem, either. But beating up a penniless graduate student? C’mon, do you beat up your own kids? The solution is the same as its been for over 10 years, if you’d just open your eyes. Give people access to anything, anywhere, anytime for a fixed monthly cost (See: cable networks, massive profits of). Give away free or reduced-price concert tickets, access to rock stars, whatever, to keep your fan base engaged. Continue to sell songs to people who want to own. Support free advertising-supported services like Spotify. You can probably think of dozens more ideas. Get creative. Isn’t that what they pay you the big bucks for? You’ll end up with massively better profits than you did before those pesky MP3s showed up. Or you can continue to go after consumers and win the law suits. In which case congratulations soon won’t be in order for you and your member companies. Think eulogies. By Michael Stroud May 31, 2012 at 7:29 pm
MAY 18, 2011 · Optical disc replicators in California would be required to keep detailed records of job orders and equipment purchases or face stiff criminal fines, under new anti-piracy legislation now making its way through the state’s Senate. The legislation, introduced earlier this year by California State Sen. Alex Padilla, aims to strengthen an existing state law that requires replicators to include source identification information on every disc they manufacture. In addition to specifying new documentation requirements and raising fines for violations, the proposed amendments authorize law enforcement to conduct warrantless compliance inspections of the state’s replication facilities.
CD-ROM Standards
History of Taiyo Yuden CD-R Taiyo Yuden invented the CD-R, along with Philips and Sony, on June 13th, 1988. At the time, Taiyo Yuden was the only manufacturer of CD-R media in the world, supplying media to many well-known CD-R distributors. The CD-R was not given the boost it needed until 1992. In that year, CD-ROM drives were introduced into the computer market. At that point, the CD-R market changed from mainly audio applications, to the data market, which because of its quick market expansion gave the CD-R notoriety and market success.
Each file name consists of three components: name, extension and version number as follows: <name>.<extension>;<version> A name or extension consists of zero or more characters of the set [A..Z], [0..9] and _ (underscore). The version number ranges from 1 to 32767. The name and extension together must consist of at least one character e.g. .000;1 is a valid ISO-9660 file name There are three levels of interchange defined by ISO-9660: -Level 1 The number of characters of the name is restricted to 8 and the number of characters of the extension is restricted to 3. -Levels 2 and 3 The total length of the name and extension is restricted to 30 characters (excluding the point and semicolon). Within GEAR the file name length is restricted to 30. Files are listed in alphabetical order. If two file names do not have the same number of characters the shorter name is treated as if extended with spaces. This rule applies for both the name and the extension. If two files have equal names the file with the highest version numbers comes first e.g. AA.;2 before AA.;1. A directory name consists of one or more characters of the set [A..Z], [0..9] and _ (underscore) with a maximum of 31 characters. The maximum nesting level of directories is 8 (the root is level 1!). The total number of characters specifying a file within a directory (path) must be smaller than 256. Directories are sorted alphabetically. The order of characters is according to ISO 646, i.e. [0..9] comes before [A..Z] and [A..Z] comes before _ (underscore). eDocPublish.com can provide you with CD’s that are in compliance with any ISO 9000 series standards.