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A whole bunch of people are submitting this, though, the explanation is not passing the sniff test.

The story is that a bunch of laptop owners (mainly from Dell) are frustrated after discovering that their laptop soundcard configuration blocks the recording of audio, even though it's possible to enable it with a few tweaks.

In other words, recording has effectively been turned off by the computer manufacturers.

It didn't take long for rumors and speculation to assume that somehow the RIAA has been pressuring these computer makers to turn off sound.

Of course, with the entertainment industry, sometimes it seems that no concept is too evil to believe that the industry wouldn't endorse.

Full story (and comments) here: Techdirt: Hard To Believe: Computer Makers Giving In To RIAA Pressure, Disabling Sound Recording?