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Originally Posted by glop glop
Though I have to say I'd find it hard to imagine any company prosecuting someone for downloading a music album he/she already owns.
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Just as it was in the cassette tape and VCR days, I don't think anyone was ever sued for copying a song, movie or book they
already owned. They did get sued, however, if they tried to sell copies of that material, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect to happen.
Unfortunately music and literature content owners are
assuming that everyone who has a digital copy of their content
will copy and sell it, because it's so easy. So, instead of taking steps to make sure that purchasing their content is so much more convenient and satisfying than bothering to pirate it, they panic and lock the content down.
I expect this trend to change, once publishhers figure out how to properly package their content in such a way as to make purchasers want their legitimate material, instead of pirated copies. But it's been pointed out that mainstream publishers have been glacially slow to adapt, so we'll probably have to wait a while to see that from anyone other than independents.