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Should consumers have the right to make copies of their music cds?

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Arkitech

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Earlier this week i purchased about 4 or 5 cds and 2 of them won't play through the typical PC applications I normally use (realplayer, media player, winamp, etc.) and i also no longer have the ability to make copies of my CDs. A lot of times I like to take the tracks I like the most from several albums and combine them onto a CD, but now with these newly copy protected CDs I can longer use my legally purchased products like I used to. I'm not sure of the legalities behind something like this but it seems like the consumer should have the right to play the music they purchased on whatever medium they choose as well make backup copies if they desire. Any thoughts on this?
 
Oh, trust me, they can be duplicated. it should be your right- but as it stands, it's illegal. That stands to be corrected... eventually.
 
Of course you should be able to copy them. I have my music in mp3s, setup so I can listen to it at work from my home machine. What I don't understand is they put copy protection on a CD, but the copy protection doesn't work on all CD drives. Why do they waste money trying?
 
"Should consumers have the right to make copies of their music cds?"

Anyone who says no should be beaten. I bought the damn thing and I will make as many copies for my own use as I want.
 
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Of course you should be able to copy them. I have my music in mp3s, setup so I can listen to it at work from my home machine. What I don't understand is they put copy protection on a CD, but the copy protection doesn't work on all CD drives. Why do they waste money trying?
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They waste money trying so they can attack you under the DMCA if you rip the music by circumventing the copy protection. I want to take a shotgun to the gut of every idiot politician that voted yes for that piece of crap, it's made me (And millions of others) a criminal for exercising the rights that I used to have.
 
You USED to be able to make copies for personal use, most definitely, and that right was upheld by law. Unfortunately, the DMCA *fixed* that, which is another reason it's such a terrible law.
 
I think consumers should be able to backup or copy anything that they've purchased. Selling it to someone should be illegal along with distributing it. Why shouldn't I be able to make a copy of a CD for my car? Should I just buy two of them? Why can't I protect my movies by making copies? I understand their reasons and I agree that rampant piracy will ultimately hurt everyone but I still want to be able to protect my invesment.
 
why are you still buying cds? that's the problem we should talk about before we move on to the problem should comsumers have the right to make copies of their music cds.
 
I don't care what the law says I keep all original CDs archived in boxes in the closet, I only play copies. I did the same for years with all my vinyl albums, I taped them to cassette and only enjoyed my music on tape until the tape began to deteriorate whence I made another tape so most of my 400 LPs have been played 2-3 times max.
 
Audio CD's aren't digitally encrypted, so the DMCA doesn't apply.

Personally, if I were you, I would take the "corrupted" CD's back. But if you're not going to, just plug a normal CD player into the line-in on your sound card, use any one of thousands of freeware sound recorders to copy it to wav on your hard drive (you'll have to record in real time which is all that sucks, but I've done this numerous times copying my vinyl) and then copy and/or encode to mp3.

All they've done this time is increase the hassle, which decreases the likelihood that I'll buy a new CD anytime soon. Reminds me, I need to hit a used record shop tomorrow... need new sounds.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Audio CD's aren't digitally encrypted, so the DMCA doesn't apply.

Personally, if I were you, I would take the "corrupted" CD's back. But if you're not going to, just plug a normal CD player into the line-in on your sound card, use any one of thousands of freeware sound recorders to copy it to wav on your hard drive (you'll have to record in real time which is all that sucks, but I've done this numerous times copying my vinyl) and then copy and/or encode to mp3.

All they've done this time is increase the hassle, which decreases the likelihood that I'll buy a new CD anytime soon. Reminds me, I need to hit a used record shop tomorrow... need new sounds.
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if you've got digital outs on your cd player and digital ins on your sound card, it will sound perfect. 🙂

not only that, you can defeat those multi-session copy protection scemes by simply scribbling over the second session with a sharpie.
 
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