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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I don't think that the CD market is dead at all, and I'm sure that most people buying CDs are buying them for the content, not to obtain covers and inserts for material that they already own legally.
I accept that the CD market is in decline, but it's hardly dead yet. Why "ought" it to be dead? I suppose that I might accept that if digital downloads were available at the same quality - as a bit of an unnecessary waste. Is that what you meant?
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Well, maybe I was a bit flippant. But CDs take a lot of space so from a consumer perspective a file is much better. Also with "ought" I referred to what I would prefer the pace of the technological development and its use to be.
For me it really does not feel ethically wrong to rip your CD collection and sell it. It seems equivalent with buying a book, reading it, and then selling it. The normal use of a CD is to listen to it many times. The normal use of a book is to read it once.