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My entire music collection is squeaky-clean legal. Either ripped from CDs I own (legal in the US, regardless of what the RIAA likes to claim); ripped from vinyl I own (ditto), downloads paid for from iTunes (a very few), or the occasional free sample from a record label (thanks Telarc!).
I really believe in artists and other creatives getting paid for their work.
Xenophon
Oh yeah... There's one disc I copied from a friend because it was not commercially available at all. And for that one, I contacted the band's agents -- who wrote back instructing me to donate the $2 that would have been the band's profits to my favorite charity; the agents paid the composer/arranger royalties on the music out of their own pockets 'cause they were so boggled that a total stranger would ask them how to pay for a copied disc that they'd never have known about.
So I guess that one's legal too.
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