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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Very much a different question. I fully agree with Harry on your first question: it's unethical (& probably illegal) to resell CDs/LPs after making and retaining a digital copy.
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Do you see a difference between (1) copying an LP and retaining a digital copy for personal use, then donating or selling the LP and (2) copying and retaining an LP and distributing multiple digital copies of it? Are both equally "bad"?
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However, it's not illegal or unethical to buy a second-hand LP or CD. The owner of the object has the implicit license to the content. If the original owner retained a copy, that makes the original owner the copyright infringer, not the purchaser or the item.
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Even if the buyer knows, or reasonably suspects, that the seller has retained a copy in digital form? Does it make a difference, ethically, if the original is donated instead of sold?
Must all originals be destroyed when one format shifts, if retaining them is impossible? Does that really make sense? Seems to me that it's not a good thing to advocate destroying cultural artifacts--that wholesale destruction is worse than some very slight harm to the copyright holders.