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Re:Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred ... by ghshephard on Thursday June 04, 2015 @11:06AM (#9659753)
The United States and Canada allowed free music (for personal use) if you wanted to tape it off the radio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act.

I believe a portion of the cost of blank tapes was allocated to recording artists to cover this costs, so perhaps it wasn't entirely free...

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Re:Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred ... by stephengillie on Thursday June 04, 2015 @11:28AM (#9659923)
The funds were allocated to recording companies, not directly to artists. Which means the artists rarely saw any of that money - the percentage of that payment to which they were entitled rarely rounded up to 1 cent.
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