Differences between 1992 and 2002 piracy (Score 1)

The problem the recording industry was trying to combat in 1992 was people making physical bit-identical copies of CD's. They failed massively because they didn't predict that home audio cd-recorders would be a complete failure while computer based cd-recorders would be a massive success. That turned out, however, to not be a problem. The issue they are battling now is electronic exchange of compressed music. Audio CD "copy" protection is actual raw-read protection. I'm sure the labels could actually care less about physical copies being made in the US. (East Asia is, of course, a completely different story). They just want to prevent casual users from being able to electronically exchange compressed tracks, a la, Napster.