I wonder which is the correct interpretation?

and this is just the US situation. I remember that under German law, for instance, copying for private, non-commercial use is allowed. One hi-fi magazine even quoted that 'copies given to a friend' were legal there.

In my home country (Netherlands - Holland as some of you would say) a levy on CD-R's was introduced to cover royalty payments for any music copied. So even the disks I use for backing-up computer data, support Lionel Ritchie's family of ex-spouses. I just hope the RIAA isn't going to tax Emma, or Emplode sessions. Think of their increased revenue when they bribe Mike to keep a few bugs in emplode, so we'll again need 10 sessions to copy a single CD across to Emma .

BTW: Emplode data transfer is stable now, also under USB

Henno
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