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Originally Posted by ApK
Even back in the days of 8-tracks and vinyl, we dubbed to cassette for use in our other car and courts upheld this as reasonable.
We weren't allowed to give out the cassettes to all our friends, even though there was no technological means in place to prevent us from doing so.
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Depending on where you live this is not entirely true.
Many(I think?) countries have a special "tax" on new media (i.e. empty cassettes, CDs, hard discs, etc...) to reimburse artists for losses because of private copies.
The number of private copies isn't specified, and this is going to vary from country to country - but I think at least in Austria it would be possible to distribute a disc among a few friends.
(Wikipedia says the number 7 once came up in court. But only as upper limit and is apparently contended.)
So, in response to the "there was no technological means in place to prevent us" - this is true, of course.
But instead they simply targetted everyone (as usual I might add) and declared everone a pirate and now get money irrelevant of what you do with the medium.
[edit]Again, remember this varies locally. Perhaps where you live you don't have to pay additional fees.