5 AU$ for a CD copy using machine in stores

[snowman]

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.

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