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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Ripping" your own CDs has never been legal in the UK, and downloading copyrighted material is most definitely a crime regardless of whether you "own" the CD or not. This is like the very silly argument some people make saying that it's "OK" to download an illegal eBook simply because you've bought the paperback.
I'm 110% on Sony's side in this. These "filesharing" criminals need to be taught a lesson. The RIAA are most definitely the "good guys" here.
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Well, ripping cd's IS legal in the US of A. Had this not been legal, the Ipod would never have been the hit it was. Now, let's have some truth in advertising. If you buy a cd, you buy a tangible object. If you "buy" an MP3, what are you buying? The right to use that music in ONLY an MP3 format? Or, say you want to convert it to a more compressed format for a nano. Can you do that legally? What happens if that MP3 is DRM'd, and you switch brands of music players?
Seems to me this can be carried to absurd lengths. What will happen in this case is that the digital markets- for ebooks, movies, or whatever- will come to a grinding halt. Not many people want to line corporate coffers by paying for the same content 2 or 3 times over.
If you pay for the content 1 time, you should be able to use that content in whatever player you want.