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Originally Posted by CyGuy
This simply does not add up. You would be stealing from yourself. It would be like taking a dollar bill from my right pocket and putting in my left pocket, and claiming a theft occurred. That is just nonsense.
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In the RIAA's world, there is no such thing as fair use. What they used to claim is that backups are not authorized by them, so every time you made a backup of your own CD (rip, etc), you were "stealing" a copy. They were completely ignoring fair use, and essentially said that unless they specifically authorized it, any use was illegal. If you needed a "backup", they claimed that you had to buy another CD from them.
Obviously that argument makes no sense at all, but that was their basic idea behind it. I believe even they have realized it doesn't hold up, and have backed off of that claim.