Wow, what an interesting thread, am enjoying the discussions about legality vs ethics.
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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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I have great difficulties with this point, probably because I do not see what is wrong with selling on a book you have read. I often buy second hand copies of books, sometimes online from sites such as eBay or Amazon but mainly from charity shops. When I've finished with a book I tend to give donate it to a charity shop, that way it isn't taking up space in my home and it is benefitting someone else. To me, it is no worse than borrowing a book from a library.