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1 edit | Re: greed, greed, greed! said by TKJunkMail  :So they go off the air for a day. Who cares. I guess I'll just have to listen to the 1000 songs I transferred from my CD collection to the computer. And this is the music I like and listen to anyway - 50's to 70's oldies. You mean the music you transferred against the wishes of the recording industry and possibly in violation of the DMCA? Tsk tsk. | |
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| Re: greed, greed, greed! said by vpoko :said by TKJunkMail :So they go off the air for a day. Who cares. I guess I'll just have to listen to the 1000 songs I transferred from my CD collection to the computer. And this is the music I like and listen to anyway - 50's to 70's oldies. You mean the music you transferred against the wishes of the recording industry and possibly in violation of the DMCA? Tsk tsk. Last I checked, transferring legally bought and paid for CD's with no DRM on them to my computer for my use is perfectly legal. Even under the DMCA. 
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| Re: greed, greed, greed! said by TKJunkMail :Last I checked, transferring legally bought and paid for CD's with no DRM on them to my computer for my use is perfectly legal. Even under the DMCA. Back in February of last year, the recording industry released a statement that declared that customers don't have the built-in right to rip their CDs even for personal use.
said by »arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20···190.html :The real kicker is buried in a footnote, where the joint reply suggests the unthinkable: that making copies of CDs for any purpose may, in fact, be infringement. Nor does the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even "routinely" granted, see C6 at 8, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright holders in the Grokster case, is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use. Allow me to translate: just because people have been copying CDs in the past doesn't mean that that they had the authorization to do so, and a general trend does not override such explicit authorization. So, according to that statement, you're infringing their copyright.
Of course, 1) they'll never be able to codify this opinion into law and 2) even if they did, there would be no way to catch personal rippers. | |
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