RIAA Math: 156 CD burners = 421 CD burners
I'm sure someone's posted this rather amusing set of stories earlier, so Mods, if you're listening, you can slap me on the wrist if this has been posted before. 
<a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/15/1759227.shtml?tid=141"; target="_blank">http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/15/1759227.shtml?tid=141</a>;
<a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/28574.html"; target="_blank">http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/28574.html</a>;
From the Register:
"Yesterday (the RIAA) issued a press release announcing a piracy bust in New York which unearthed 421 CD-R burners.
Only there weren't 421 burners, but "the equivalent of 421 burners."
In fact, there were just 156. How did the RIAA account for this discrepancy?
"There were only 156 actual burners, but some run at very high speeds: some as high as 40x. This is well above the average speed," was the official line yesterday. "
<a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/15/1759227.shtml?tid=141"; target="_blank">http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/15/1759227.shtml?tid=141</a>;
<a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/28574.html"; target="_blank">http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/28574.html</a>;
From the Register:
"Yesterday (the RIAA) issued a press release announcing a piracy bust in New York which unearthed 421 CD-R burners.
Only there weren't 421 burners, but "the equivalent of 421 burners."
In fact, there were just 156. How did the RIAA account for this discrepancy?
"There were only 156 actual burners, but some run at very high speeds: some as high as 40x. This is well above the average speed," was the official line yesterday. "
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