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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I really find objectionable is protected CDs. I see nothing wrong with downloading music from a CD that you are unable to rip due to it being protected.
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Ironically, I had a BMG protected CD a few years ago that refused to play cleanly in my portable CD player (not an MP3 CD player, not a car player, just a 2AA battery Panasonic CD player), it woudl skip, double play and hangup peridoically. The only way I could listen to that album on that player was to rip a copy on my PC (well that anti-rip protection worked well - didn't it!) and burn a copy to a CD-R, and listen to that version.
I even wrote to BMG telling them this, and they offered to replace my original CD provided I could produce the original receipt - which I didn't have, so I still have that CD-R tucked in the box with the original gathering dust.