earthling12357 wrote:
HarringtonLaw wrote:
What I said applies ONLY to burns. If a customer brings in an original disc, have at it. Playing from original media is ALWAYS OK. If you are going to play from burns, you should take reasonable steps to protect yourself.
When I have at it with a customer's original disc that is not in my inventory, witnessed by an investigator, there will be no way to distinguish it from a burned disc six months later in audit without the assistance of a clairvoyant.
All discs must be treated the same.
I don't need to distinguish it from a burned disc in that scenario, because your hard drive will provide me with other indicia to rule out the other forms of piracy that could explain this--if all you are doing is playing the occasional customer disc.
If you are reasonably close with 1:1, then it will not be a problem--even if it takes you over 2% variance, which is highly unlikely anyway.
If my investigator stays 2 hours, sees you play 20 tracks, sees no one bringing discs up to you, and 15 of the tracks you played appear nowhere in your disc collection or your hard drive, then you've got a problem.
All of this is likely academic anyway. I've yet to see anyone for whom the use of an occasional patron-provided burn was the sole reason for maintaining a suit. Technically, it could subject you to liability. But if that's the only thing against you in an otherwise solid inspection, well, there is a Latin maxim--
de minimis non curat lex--which means, roughly, that the law disregards trifling offenses. If you keep a log, or you only play originals, then you really have nothing to worry about.
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