> Moral arguments aside, yes, they are exactly the same.  The gent who runs
> the SM fact page mentions having run a couple of SM discs and the
> corresponding original japanese releases through a digital analyzer, and has
> found that (suprise suprise) they are exactly the same.
> 
> This makes sense.  Digital data is digital data.  If the discs were being
> replicated by analogue means, there would be a chance for degradation.
> However SM uses digital transfer methods so every copy is an exact copy of
> the one it is made from.  They could copy the original, then copy the copy,
> and continue copying the copy for several generations and it would still be
> an identical copy.

Not like it's a big deal.  Buddy of mine has a CD burner, and my
computer thinks the copy and the original are one and the same.
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