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First post, by JayCeeBee64

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Here's a lengthy, yet fascinating and intriguing read about how a CD manufacturing plant employee learned to bootleg and pirate music CDs (as well as movies, games and PC software).

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/ … -music-business

Ooohh, the pain......

Reply 2 of 7, by F2bnp

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Interesting read! Thanks for the link man!

Reply 3 of 7, by RacoonRider

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one-color monitor

I wonder what that looks like 😁

Reply 4 of 7, by JayCeeBee64

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RacoonRider wrote:

one-color monitor

I wonder what that looks like 😁

Probably something like this ^^:

zuNY5Tel.png

Ooohh, the pain......

Reply 5 of 7, by NJRoadfan

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Take what is in the article with a grain of salt. There is surely some embellishing of the facts.

The article doesn't appear to be factually correct about the price of CD-R drives in 1994. Recorders were EXPENSIVE in the early 90s, like $3000-4000, not $600. CD-R drives didn't really fall under $1000 until 1996 or so.

Here is a sample from a mid-1994 PC Magazine with prices, even the software was expensive! https://books.google.com/books?id=-9SyS6tX8Gs … ecorder&f=false

MP3 releases in 1996 have to be pretty rare. The earliest stuff I have found comes from 1997. Back then, music was a quaint section of warez sites.

Reply 6 of 7, by oerk

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NJRoadfan wrote:

*snip*

That's almost exactly what I wanted to write! Except that I think CD writers were a lot more expensive, more like $10.000. External, of course, and SCSI, of course.

Reply 7 of 7, by 2fort5r

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The earliest stuff was actually mp2 IIRC.

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