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Originally Posted by Redcard
The RIAA and various courts disagree. When you copy something from one format to another, verbatim, the fair use doctrine does not apply. Many cases have held that whatever fair use is, a full and complete copy cannot be fair use.
Again, whether or not they'd go after you for it is a different discussion. But that's why Canada has a "tax" on CD media, and why the same is getting advanced through here.
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Redcard,
Are you sure about that? I mean yes the RIAA would say it is illegal and if they could, they would love to charge you every time you listen to, watch or read copyrighted material. That being said, I would think that the existence of some of the features in iTunes and other digital media playing software suggests that Ripping CDs for personal use is legal. After all, Apple and Microsoft (since Windows Media Player has the capability too) would hardly have put a feature in their products that they knew was likely to get them sued. If ripping CDs were illegal, then writing the software to rip the CDs would likely be considered aiding and abetting the crime (Since there would be very few legitimate uses of the software at that point).
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Bill