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Is this legal?

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BlancoNino

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I've been thinking about how it is illegal to buy a CD at a store, copy the music onto your HD, and then sell the original CD.

Here is my question: Is it illegal to buy a cookbook, type all of the recipes in note-pad and save them, and then sell the cookbook or take it back? This seems like a law impossible to enforce.
 
Against the law. There's a copyright on that. My Aunt Margie got busted for doing exactly that, but with 5 cookbooks at a time.
 
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
 
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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SO it's legal to copy CD's for yourself as long as you keep the original copy?
 
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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how's it impossible to enforce? if you have files on your computer that you don't have cds for, then you get fvcked.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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SO it's legal to copy CD's for yourself as long as you keep the original copy?
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Yes
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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SO it's legal to copy CD's for yourself as long as you keep the original copy?
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Yep, you can pretty much do whatever you want as long as it's not for profit
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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how's it impossible to enforce? if you have files on your computer that you don't have cds for, then you get fvcked.
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But there aren't going to be any random police hard drive searches are there?
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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how's it impossible to enforce? if you have files on your computer that you don't have cds for, then you get fvcked.
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throw the hard drive out of the window. for extreme situations, throw the computer out of the window, however remember to save the harddrive with porn on it
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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how's it impossible to enforce? if you have files on your computer that you don't have cds for, then you get fvcked.
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Whos searching your hard drive? If you sell the cd's and keep the rips for personal use there is no way to get in trouble, although it is still illegal.
 
Originally posted by: Ayah
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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SO it's legal to copy CD's for yourself as long as you keep the original copy?
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Yes
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Not if RIAA could help it.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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how's it impossible to enforce? if you have files on your computer that you don't have cds for, then you get fvcked.
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But there aren't going to be any random police hard drive searches are there?
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there will be plenty of cavity searches 😉
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian451
Originally posted by: Ayah
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Illegal, yet impossible to enforce. Personally I buy cd's, rip lossless backups and then stash the cd's. For how much a cd costs these days, I dont feel good lugging them around and pulling them in and out to listen to them. Zen Micro + line out/line in cord= cd's are safe.
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SO it's legal to copy CD's for yourself as long as you keep the original copy?
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Yes
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Not if RIAA could help it.
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Quoted For Truth
 
Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
well this is different. think about copying a vhs/dvd and selling it on ebay? doesn't that seem illegal?
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what about watching said movie, and engraving it to your memory, and THEN ebaying it. is that illegal? cuz i like to replay movies in my head while i fall asleep... same thing with a couple of songs, i just memorize them, and then play them while running. screw ipods.
 
Give the MPAA 20 years, and they'll outfit movie theatres with memory erasing devices at the exit doors of all theaters. People storing movies with their brain will be the next thing they label as stealing.
 
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