On Mon Dec  9 22:15:18 EST 2013, bruce.ellis@gmail.com wrote:

> good to hear. all of the major brands had holograms in 1998.

proper packaging includes a hologram.  but clearly as andrey points out,
that's probablly not proof that they're not junk.

> Maybe he's lucky. I have a swag of such disks and 80% are very fine pirates.

so here's a question: was the pirating uniform?  that is, did top 100 cds
get pirated at the same rate as say the top 20000 - the top 100?

- erik