Copying your own CD to computer not legal?
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Copying your own CD to computer not legal?
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Think the music industry has gone nuts.
Think the music industry has gone nuts.
I thought that this had always been the case. Back in the days when we copied albums to the, then, ever-so-portable cassette tape it was technically illegal. We have always assumed that we could copy for personal use but we couldn't. In fact, wasn't the change going to be to actually legalise it? BBC News 2006
Taping one's own vinyl records and playing the tape in the car always seemed reasonable to me. But many people taped their friends' LPs and that, of course, meant that the music industry lost out.
Similarly with CDs. Transfer your own CDs to an iTunes store on your own PC would seem reasonable - but the unscrupulous could equally copy everything to a portable drive and sell it on.....
The greed of a few will always result in heavy-handed copyright protection becoming necessary.
Yoof of today simply won't pay 6/8 for a single 3 minute track!
Similarly with CDs. Transfer your own CDs to an iTunes store on your own PC would seem reasonable - but the unscrupulous could equally copy everything to a portable drive and sell it on.....
The greed of a few will always result in heavy-handed copyright protection becoming necessary.
Yoof of today simply won't pay 6/8 for a single 3 minute track!
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I bet we lend/borrow books from each other - that can't be right I suppose.
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You only have to look at the extortion carried out by the Performing Rights Society to see what a racket it is.
I'm sure if they could devise some way of extracting a fee for every time we played our legitimately purchased media, they would do it.
I'm sure if they could devise some way of extracting a fee for every time we played our legitimately purchased media, they would do it.