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Originally Posted by tirsales
And no - I haven't bough much new music since it became illegal to rip a CD. (I didn't pirate it either, but I just got old CDs without that restriction and spent much less money).
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Is that the case in Germany?? I hadn't heard about any like that in the US. Of course, I stopped buying CDs ages ago when it became more cost effective for me to just buy single songs that I liked.
I'm certain it's illegal as all hell, but I also take all of my iTunes music, convert it to mp3 and store it on one of my backup drives. I refuse to be told that, if my iPod breaks and I decide not to replace it with another iPod, I also lose all of the music I purchased.
Of course, I have the same view about ebooks. I will keep DRM Kindle books to an absolute minimum. If my Kindle is lost or stolen, or if I start pushing up the daisies, I want to continue to have some access to the books I purchased (well, not so much in the second instance, but in that case I would like to be able to leave my book collection to someone, complete with a good readable selection of books).