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Originally Posted by Catlady
Let me ask Harry another question--shifting the focus to music, since I'm currently in the process of digitizing my LP collection, creating multiple archival and listening copies. I plan to get rid of the LPs, donating and/or selling them. In your ethical system, is this acceptable or not?
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Originally Posted by Catlady
So ... I'm supposed to destroy them?
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Err, yes it is illegal to retain digital copies of your music while at the same time selling the had copies to someone else. Your moral and legal right to own the digital copies is tied to your moral and legal right to own the physical disks.
That is absolutely worlds away from retaining your
right to the digital text of a book while
loaning the text to another... if you have taken upon yourself to not access the text yourself during that time.
(debatable, considering that current rights systems allow and encourage you to share your library with an arbitrary one person.)