A few years back I bought a Philips cd recorder. It would only record using "music cd's". I asked the fellow at the store about the music cd's and he told me it had something to do with the recording companies getting a certain amount of money everytime a music cd was sold. The premise was that they (the companies) figured you would be using the device to copy cd's and wanted to get their fingers into the pot. At least that was my take on what he was saying.

My main purpose in buying the recorder was to make cd's from my old lp's and cassette tapes. After having a few purchased cd's go belly up I started making back-up copies. I also did some recording of my band, etc. Seems all of that recording is illegal these days?

Cap't Bob