Music industry worried about CD burning

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As well they should be.

When I was an undergraduate, I lived in a fraternity house with 40-50 other members. It was common for members to copy a CD with an audio cassette. It was never a case where one guy bought a CD and then everyone copied it to their own personal cassette tape, but I'm pretty sure that "sharing" is a lot more common these days in settings such as this.

Let's consider the source of this story: the RIAA. And let's consider the RIAA's misguided past, the organization's penchant for blaming the industry's massive piracy problem on kids instead of pointing their resources and fingers at the real problem: global piracy. The reason the Industry needs copy control mechanisms is to fight piracy overseas, where it's arguably a much larger problem.

UPDATE: The Big Picture: More RIAA sponsored nonsense debunks the CD burning issue succinctly.