5 AU$ for a CD copy using machine in stores
 

Check this out. For 5 bucks, AU money that is, you can go to your corner store and duplicate a CD. Wonder if these things will pop up at 7/11 stores in the good old USA? Now that ought to start a law suit in 10 minutes. Had to happen though I supose.

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http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au...5E2682,00.html


Copying CDs as easy ABCD
By Police Reporter MICHAEL DUFFY
03apr02

NEW machines installed in Adelaide convenience stores make the illegal copying of the latest CDs and computer software – which costs artists and software designers millions of dollars – as easy as buying a loaf of bread.

The stores have begun installing coin-operated CD duplication machines fitted with software to circumvent anti-copying measures built into some CDs.
The Copy Cat CD Duplication machines charge just $5, plus the purchase of a $2 blank disk, to make digitally identical copies of CDs in under 10 minutes.

The machines are already in a number of city convenience stores, as well as printing and copying shops. Sales of home CD copying machines, known as burners, also are booming, with one city store selling more than 100 a month.

(... more at the newspaper site ....)

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au...5E2682,00.html

I don't know why but this struck as hilarious!
 

Gawd, the big bad wolf's gonna jump on this quicker than a fly can find a pile of dookie!!

:J: ....................can't stop laughing!

:SP:

is this not obviously wrong or what!
 

The more I think of this whoever put this unit together had to have ..... for brains.

Are there not copyrights in Australia? :m:

What's the big deal? Anybody with a PC, burner and CloneCD (or some other similar software) can make raw data copies of CDs at their home. Providing that same possibility to people in convenience stores for a reasonable price is just good service.

- tg ;)

If it didn't copy right. where can I get refund?

good question
 

How would you know till you tried the CD....

not to worry riaa, everyone's going to use them to make copies of their personal digital photo cd's instead of having to go all the way to the photo shop at the mall. just use these guys on the corner for conveinience and c'mon, if the occasional music cd "falls into" a duplicator once in a while where's the harm? heh. five bucks is a bit steep tho, but so were those coin op xeroxes when they first appeared.

- js.

you might think they're gonna get jumped on for this, but legally I don't see the difference between your cornershop having a CD-copier and it having a photo-copier (and no-one's managed to get those outlawed).