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At $100 off, you can now buy a CD-to-CDR duplicator for the same price or less than a FireWire CDRW. IGM will predict here and now that if copy-protected CDs gain critical mass, these will be a hot-ticket item under the Xmas tree. Alera Technologies usually sell their FireWire-based standalone CD duplicator - which connects to any Mac or PC with a FireWire port - for $449, but they've reduced the price to $349. At 24x burn speed, meaning a 3-minute wait time, the CD Copy Cruiser Pro 24 should copy any CD. Unlike the affected iMacs Apple has noted in a KBase document, the Copy Cruiser is a standalone copier which functions without a Mac/PC and only hooks up if and when you want it. Copy Cruiser is bundled with CharisMac's Discribe for Mac and Nero for PC. It is distributed to resellers by Ingram Micro and more information is available at Alera Technologies. IGM in no way endorses violation of copyright protection, but it would be naive to assume that these types of peripherals cannot be employed by consumers for the purpose of copying commercial CDs. And there are many, many general purpose CD copiers out there. However, this is one of the most inexpensive we've seen. Analysis: This proves once and for all that the music business are a bunch of 'bozos' who don't 'get it'. If you try and stop people from copying CDs, the technology will be developed - at consumer prices - to overcome this obstacle. Demand = supply. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about CDs, drugs or guns.
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