said by Jason Levine:As a real world example: My wife owns a copy of Billy Joel's Kohuept. I bought it for her when her cassette tape version broke. In a stroke of bad luck, the CD recently broke as well (cracked into 2 pieces). We never got around to ripping to music to CD. (A mistake we won't make again.)
Now I might be able to locate the songs online via a P2P network and download them, but I don't think that would be legal.
Actually what I got straight from the horses mouth, so to speak, was that downloading a song you previously purchased falls under fair use. Even if you bought a vinyl copy and downloaded an mp3 that came from a CD. This specific question was raised a couple years ago and answered by a representative of the RIAA in an interview. He also said they do not mind people lending out CDs. Now how much of this will change as they want more control is another story.
