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up to the courts
My guess is that the success of industry efforts to limit e-copies of digital material will be determined by how legal cases are dealt with.
Most of us, I suspect, would make the odd copy of a song and give it to a friend, knowing that we might be breaking some law, but not caring too much about it because everyone is doing it, and up to recently, no one was getting busted for it.
The few high profile cases of individuals getting hit with outrageous fines - if they are allowed to stand, and if the practice continues - would most likely place a chill on public acceptance of "personal copies for friends" .
Alternately, if public pressure continues to grow against DRM, and if there is not a highly visible crack-down against alledged offenders in your area, then you would probably carry on with the odd duplicate now and again.
- Frank
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