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  Subject: [0] Introduction
  
  Subject: [0-1] Legal noise (disclaimers and copyrights)
! (2009/01/25)
  
! This document is Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andy McFadden, All Rights
  Reserved.  All of the content here, except for attributed quoted material,
  is my original work.
  
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  Subject: [0] Introduction
  
  Subject: [0-1] Legal noise (disclaimers and copyrights)
! (2010/01/09)
  
! This document is Copyright (C) 1996-2010 by Andy McFadden, All Rights
  Reserved.  All of the content here, except for attributed quoted material,
  is my original work.
  
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  Subject: [0-8] Can I advertise on the FAQ pages?
! (2005/02/07)
  
  Since its inception, the FAQ has been made available, in its entirety,
  free of charge.  For nearly nine years, this was done without any overt
  advertising.  This was made possible in large part by Katherine Cochrane
  and Andy Rubin, who provided free web hosting on cd-info.com and spies.com,
  respectively.  The FAQ was using over 1GB of bandwidth per day at its peak,
! occasionally exceeding 2GB per day, so hosting the FAQ was not for the
! faint of heart.
  
  The free web hosting days came to an end in January 2005, so I decided
  that the FAQ should try to pay its own way.  I'm currently using Google's
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  Subject: [0-8] Can I advertise on the FAQ pages?
! (2009/01/26)
  
  Since its inception, the FAQ has been made available, in its entirety,
  free of charge.  For nearly nine years, this was done without any overt
  advertising.  This was made possible in large part by Katherine Cochrane
  and Andy Rubin, who provided free web hosting on cd-info.com and spies.com,
  respectively.  The FAQ was using over 1GB of bandwidth per day at its peak,
! occasionally exceeding 2GB per day, so hosting the FAQ back in the late
! 1990s was not for the faint of heart.
  
  The free web hosting days came to an end in January 2005, so I decided
  that the FAQ should try to pay its own way.  I'm currently using Google's
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  distribute, so no ads will be found there.  Only the cdrfaq.org version
  has advertising.
  
! In an effort to keep the FAQ fair and impartial, I have never accepted direct
! advertising, mutual linking, or links with affiliate IDs.  Vendors with
! relevant products can have URLs added to appropriate sections of the FAQ,
! simply by asking.
! 
! Products that solve specific problems, such as recovering data from damaged
! discs, repairing scratches, or removing pops and clicks from digitized
! audio tracks, will be listed under the appropriate topic.  CD recording
! software and hardware vendors can get their own sub-section.  Vendors that
! don't fit in a specific category will be listed in section (8).
  
  
  Subject: [0-9] Can you mail the FAQ to me?
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  distribute, so no ads will be found there.  Only the cdrfaq.org version
  has advertising.
  
! In an effort to keep the FAQ fair and impartial, I have never accepted
! direct advertising, mutual linking, or links with affiliate IDs.  Vendors
! with relevant products can have URLs added to appropriate sections of
! the FAQ, simply by asking.  Anyone who wishes to provide a link to the
! FAQ on their web site is welcome to do so.
! 
! Products that solve problems specifically addressed here, such as
! recovering data from damaged discs, repairing scratches, or removing
! pops and clicks from digitized audio tracks, will be listed under the
! appropriate topic.  CD recording software and hardware vendors can get
! their own sub-section.  Vendors that don't fit in a specific category
! will be listed in section (8).
  
  
  Subject: [0-9] Can you mail the FAQ to me?
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  Subject: [2-29] Why was 74 minutes chosen as the standard length?
! (2002/04/18)
  
  The general belief is that it was chosen because the CD designers wanted to
  have a format that could hold Beethoven's ninth symphony.  They were trying
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  Subject: [2-29] Why was 74 minutes chosen as the standard length?
! (2010/01/09)
  
  The general belief is that it was chosen because the CD designers wanted to
  have a format that could hold Beethoven's ninth symphony.  They were trying
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  (This is almost certainly Norio Ohga, who became President and COO of Sony
  in 1982 and has been a high-level executive ever since.)
  
! The "urban legends" web site has some interesting articles for anyone
! wishing to puruse the matter further.  The relationship of Beethoven's
! ninth to the length is noted "believed true" in the alt.folklore.urban FAQ
! listing, but no particular variant is endorsed.
! 
! http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/cd/cd_length_skeptical.html
! http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/cd/cd_length_karajan.html
! http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/cd/cd_length_origin.html
! 
! Another entry:
! 
! http://www.snopes2.com/music/media/cdlength.htm
  
  Searching the net will reveal any number of "very reliable sources" with
  sundry variations on the theme.
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  (This is almost certainly Norio Ohga, who became President and COO of Sony
  in 1982 and has been a high-level executive ever since.)
  
! The relationship of Beethoven's ninth to the length is noted "believed
! true" in the alt.folklore.urban FAQ listing, but no particular
! variant is endorsed.  An entry can also be found on Snopes, at
! http://www.snopes.com/music/media/cdlength.asp
  
  Searching the net will reveal any number of "very reliable sources" with
  sundry variations on the theme.
