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That's not entirely true. It's illegal to buy a CD and rip it to your PC, yes. It's not illegal to download an MP3 to your PC and copy it to your iPod. Format conversion is what's illegal: if you buy music in a particular (digital) format, there's no problem at all in moving it around from one device to another, as long as it's for your personal use.
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Making format conversion "fair use" (ie legal) was originally a part of the Digital Economy Act, but it doesn't seem to have made it into the final law. It don't know if it got dropped through lack of time in the "wash-up", or what, but it's a pity that this legal anomaly didn't get sorted out. |
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I like the general Idea but Im considering going this route instead
http://www.pogoplug.com/home-en.html? http://www.tonido.com/ tonido has the added benefit of being able to remote back up to other plugs or computers running tonido. essentially im thinking of getting every one in the immediate family to to get one and then we will each be backing up at someone else's house plus it will be our own personal "clouds". |
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It seems to be one of those things that everyone - industry, government, and consumer groups - is in favour of. I've not heard anyone argue against it. It really is an anomaly in our copyright laws.
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Sued on what basis? Cloud storage of your own, legally-purchased, media, is no crime!
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MP3.com uploaded 75,000 CDs on their own, then let you access it providing you had the original CD as well. Other services like Lala.com had a combination of music you uploaded/they uploaded. I don't know if anyone has tried the pure "you upload your music, we give you a player to play that music" approach yet. But doesn't Dropbox, SugarSync, etc. actually let you play music/watch movies from those drives? |
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Since when has the RIAA cared about a legal basis before suing people?
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FYI, this is the article that the above quote came from. Also points out that Amazon is apparently working to secure licenses from the record labels.
That they even need a license for this is just more IP stupidity. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...=djemalertTECH |
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Playing an MP3 file requires copying it from the original file into RAM, which it seems under UK copyright law constitutes an act of copying[1], and if you were not licenced to make that copy, it would indeed be copyright infringement. However, this means that an MP3 that was not sold including a licence to make such transient copies would be impossible to use, so is it reasonably to imply such permission into a sale even if it is not explicitly stated? So actually I might have to correct myself, and say that mr ploppy might be technically correct (which is the best sort of correct ), and that absent a licence from the copyright owner, or someone authorised to grant permission on their behalf, it may indeed be illegal to make a copy of an mp3 file, and that would include actually playing it. 1: Eg, Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (t/a Sony Computer Entertainment Inc) v Ball & Ors [2004] EWHC 1738 (Ch) (19 July 2004) Quote:
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