Hi Bonnie, Long time no see!
        
        I have not tried to "copy a copy" on the CD-R, so cannot say whether 
the copy protection kicks in there OR if the quality of the copy suddenly 
takes a dive. I have however burned more than one copy of a couple of my 
disks when I first started experimenting with the CD-Rs just to see if the 
copy protection would kick in somehow. One was a demo/test disk I bought 
directly from one of the record/CD companys, the other, a standard consumer 
CD of a popular jazz group I purchased at Circuit City the day before (so it 
wasn't an old CD from before the copy protection began). I cannot tell which 
is the chicken and which is the egg between them and have listened closely on 
a couple extremely expensive, accurate systems and with a good set of 
headphones. So, the statement, "bits is bits" seems to hold true for now. 
But, somehwere I lost the fact that I was paying a 15% extra kicker on each 
blank, and have been waiting for the other shoe to drop from the recording 
industry...and shut down CD-R audio recording completely. I even delayed 
purchase because I thought that any day I would see something like that in 
the paper. Dah!
        The CD-R software that comes with the HP has been causing the latest 
"fixed" version of Windows 95 to grind to a screeching halt.....nothing new 
for that operating/not operating system. It flat will not run under Windows 
NT V 4.0 no matter what I do, and it was not intended for OS/2 Warp V 4, but 
I have yet to try it in a Win/OS2 dedicated session. I am almost afraid to.
        So I now have to load WFWG 3.11 into the boot commander for that one 
single operation or until someone fixes it. As for Windows 95, I guess it 
will just have to stand in line behind all the other problems.
        Cheers, John
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