Fred is dead on: the Recording Industry (RIAA) views copying digital media as a very serious threat to their livelihood. Fred has already pointed out that EAC allows digital copies with no generational loss whatsoever.
RIAA was never too concerned over copying of analog media (LP, Cassette, etc) because of the inherent generational loss.
RIAA has seen significant loss in revenue due in part to piracy, and other factors. As a result RIAA aggressively pursues piracy (recall the legal action against Napster, and those copies were data reduced MP3s).
So Fred is wise to filter out anything from this group hinting at inappropriate copying of commercial media.
-- Marty
--- On Sun, 10/25/09, Fred Maxwell <
_EAC_moderator@...> wrote:
[snip]
What the RIAA is upset about with CDs is that software like EAC makes
it simple to quickly (much faster than real time) create EXACT
duplicates of music, with no copy-to-copy degradation and that such
copies are easily distributed online. It's not like the days of
cassette tape where you could get a "good" copy of an LP, but never a
perfect one. And a copy of a copy of a copy of a cassette was often a
sonic nightmare. Analog had its own de-facto copy protection in the
form of degradation (S/N ratio, THD, imperfect channel separation,
etc.).
[snip]
Regards,
Fred Maxwell
