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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If I have a CD and I want to rip it to put the music on my DAP, I can do that. Nobody is saying I cannot. Now, lets say my DVD drive is broken so that I cannot rip this CD, would it be an issue if I asked someone who also owns this same CD to rip it and send it to me via the net? IMHO, I think it would not be a problem. It would still come under fair use. I own the CD. I have the software to rip the CD. I just don't have the drive till my new one is here and installed.
SNIP
The laws need to be looked at in regards to digital content and changes makde to compensate for digital content. There are a lot of things with digital content that the laws do not take into account. like the situation above. We can make life so much easier if we fix the broken laws such that the user is happy and the content provider(s) get compensated.
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Here in the U.S. the law is reasonably clear on your first question. The guy who also owns the same CD has gone beyond fair use if he sends you a copy of the bits. Even though you could rip your own copy if only your CD/DVD reader was working.
An odd twist on this is that it's arguably legal (1) for a friend to loan you a CD that he owns (but you don't) (2) for you to rip the CD while it is in your possession, and (3) for you to keep the bits after you return the CD. This one hasn't been tested in the courts, but has been argued by a number of highly competent lawyers & law-school profs as "highly likely to be legal under fair use." It seems morally wrong to me, though. You really ought to pay the artists and copyright holders for the content (IMHO).
The laws do seem rather out of date, except for the ever-increasing term of copyright.
Xenophon