[MPlayer-users] Re: [MPlayer-users] ASF patenting ?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 06:02:02AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Saturday 13 July 2002 17:44, dfox wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > Data CD's are very inexpensive, but here also in the US if you buy
> > blank CD (Maxell, etc.) intended for "audio" use you pay a premium.
> same in Germany, data cd-r are very cheap, but audio-cd-r (technically the 
> same), contain a GEMA-fee and are 4times or so the price of data cd-r.

Not exactly.  The GEMA fee is about 6 cents per hour of recording, but audio
CD-Rs cost several euros.  It's a big scam basically.

Diego