Sony CMT-SE5 54GB, Management System, Guide to the Serial Copy

Guide to the Serial CopyManagement System

Digital audio components, such as CDs, MDs, and DATs let you copy music easily with high quality by processing music as a digital signal. To protect the copyrighted music programs, a system uses the Serial Copy Management System that allows you to make only a single copy of a digitally recorded source through digital-to-digital connections.

You can make only a first generation copy* through a digital-to-digital connection.

For example:

1You can make a copy of a commercially available digital sound programme (for example, a CD), but you cannot make a second copy from the first-generation copy.

2You can make a copy of a digital signal from a digitally recorded analogue sound programme (for example, an analogue record or a music cassette tape) or from a digital satellite broadcast programme, but you cannot make a second copy.

*A first-generation copy means a digital recording of a digital signal made on digital audio equipment. For example, if you record from this system’s DVD player to the connected optional MD deck, you make a first-generation copy.

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