[linux-audio-user] Creating live CDs (is illegal?)

[Them]

Robin Millette wrote:

> lau at hippie-online.de wrote:
> 
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>> I'd like to know if there is a tool to create live CDs under Linux.
>> 
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> That would be illegal: Clear Channel Limits Live CDs Company to block
> bands from selling instant albums 
> http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6066617&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1&rnd=1085441305296&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.847
> 
> 
> Or search google: 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=patent+live+cd+recording
> 
> P.S.: don't shoot the messenger please!

Uh, no, that's not the same thing.  ClearChannel's issue is about Their 
Competition making instant CDs *on the spot* for fans to buy immediately 
after the show using specialized equipment that is covered by the patent 
ClearChannel now owns.  Recording a live show and then later producing a 
CD out of it is not something covered by the ClearChannel's patent.

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