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Ripping your own CD for your own iPod illegal

Dargo

Dargo

Like a bad penny...
It appears that our friends, the RIAA, have now decided that it is an "unfair" use to copy music from a CD you purchased onto your iPod. :eek: They now want you to buy a specific copy of that music that will copy exactly once directly to your iPod. See this article Ripping your CD to your iPod unfair use Further, the RIAA has now decided that you should no longer be able to make any backup copy of your own music and states doing so is in violation to copyrights. If you want a backup, go buy another CD. Check out this article on the subject Making a backup copy of own CD illegal

Isn't the RIAA great!? :moon: :5boobs:
 
Its no different than the movie studios and their anti-copy laws.

Basically both are totally against you having any ability to do anything with what you buy. While I agree that illegal downloads and illegal copies trading hands is stealing, it seems to me I should be able to have a copy of my own CD that I legally pay for as a back-up incase my kid leaves CD on the car seat and the summer sun melts it!
 
I only use back up copies and archive the originals. There is no doubt in my mind that CD's get damaged in the car and that is the only way that I can reasonably use the CD in the car.
 
They're making a stong assumption on this...

They believe it may fatten their "bottom line". That's a possibility.

The other possibility is that we all tell them :raz: :finger2: :bigMoon: and quit buying their stuff in the volume we have been. See what that does to their "bottom line".
 
I think that if I have paid my money for a song to listen to personally, then I can do with it what I want. In fact, the CD media that the song originally came on will probably play it back to me the least. I'll copy it to the computer, download that to my mp3 player, wifi that to my computer/mp3 slave :whip:in the shop.

I don't think we should have to limit our thinking to "I'm keeping a backup of the original media".
 
RIAA has served their purpose and should be put out of business. I'd much prefer to buy direct from the artist and not have to deal with them. I thought the web would bring that movement on but so far it hasn't happened.
Anyone can record music direct from the radio, TV, satelite, cable, etc. With direct TV now offering xm radio I can set my dvr to record hours of music then selectivly copy the songs I like to my computer and create CD's from there. But, all that takes time, so, I still buy CD's on occasion as long as they are not copyright protected.
If RIAA gets their way and copyright protects everything so that you cannot make any copies, I'll never buy another CD ever.
 
I'm glad you guys feel the same way as I do. I think the RIAA has now gotten too big for their little pants since they have slammed parents and grandparents across the country for their kids using Napster and other such sites. My theory has always been that if I purchase the music that I should be able to enjoy such music on any personal hardware device I may own. As Bob said, I too see where there is a conflict of making copies and distributing them, but that is not what we are talking about now. Like Junkman, I rarely use my original CD's for use in my car and tractor. They just get ruined too easily. I just can't imagine the RIAA getting by with this latest interpretion of intellectual property rights.
 
for the life of me I still can;t figure out why people rave about Ipods???

MP3 players where out WAY before, cheaper to buy and have less issues.
 
buy_25 said:
for the life of me I still can;t figure out why people rave about Ipods???

MP3 players where out WAY before, cheaper to buy and have less issues.
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Sorry, did you say better interface?
 
nope...:)

The IPOD is a worse interface. No stuff you need to down load, no you need to do this and that...I just do not get it.
 
I don't own one, but, the operation and organization of the IPod is way better than my MP3. I didn't think it was such a big deal untill I played around with one. They are very nice.


But, for $300 I can get several MP3 style jump drives.
 
Let's turn this around then. What about the songs I buy off of a service like iTunes and back up to CD...illegal?? They are full of #$%@!!!
 
dyt4000 said:
Let's turn this around then. What about the songs I buy off of a service like iTunes and back up to CD...illegal?? They are full of #$%@!!!
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No, in that case you have been granted a license to copy the songs downloaded off of iTunes up to 10 times within any given "playlist" sequence. You can then copy the same songs 10 more times under a different "playlist" sequence . . . ad infinitum.

Now if you use some of the other download services, you are only renting songs from some of those services and are only allowed to use the songs for as long as you pay your monthly subscription. How they enforce that, I have no idea.
 
Ipods.......... MP3......... Itunes...... etc..... what are you guys talking about? I still have my old 33 RPM records.... what is with this new fangled world coming to??? What ever happened to wax cylinders?????
 
Junkman said:
Ipods.......... MP3......... Itunes...... etc..... what are you guys talking about? I still have my old 33 RPM records.... what is with this new fangled world coming to??? What ever happened to wax cylinders?????
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True that digital is a cheap imitation of analog!
 
Av8r3400 said:
I don't own one, but, the operation and organization of the IPod is way better than my MP3. I didn't think it was such a big deal untill I played around with one. They are very nice.

But, for $300 I can get several MP3 style jump drives.
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Yea, they are nice but for 5X what my mp3 player cost??? and bigger......Nevermind other then the $99 one, you can't run with them. I run with people with them and they always have issues due to there electronics (hard drive) etc.

Ipod is MAKING to do this and that with them. It is worse then IE. Thanks but for music and vids, a thumb drive or mp3 is cheaper, better and more of a multi-tasker. Plus


My point was that MP3 was lightyears ahead (in todays world) of IPODS.
 
B_Skurka said:
No, in that case you have been granted a license to copy the songs downloaded off of iTunes up to 10 times within any given "playlist" sequence. You can then copy the same songs 10 more times under a different "playlist" sequence . . . ad infinitum.

Now if you use some of the other download services, you are only renting songs from some of those services and are only allowed to use the songs for as long as you pay your monthly subscription. How they enforce that, I have no idea.
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iTunes ...enought said. :yum::yum:
 
If I buy a CD or DVD I should have the right to destroy them, burn them (literally) and do whatever I want to do with them as long as for my own use. Frustrating :mad:
 
I've got an Ipod Nano and I can run with it all day long....it doesn't have a hard drive. I've had mp3 players and the Nano's sound quality is far superior.
 
dyt4000 said:
I've got an Ipod Nano and I can run with it all day long....it doesn't have a hard drive. I've had mp3 players and the Nano's sound quality is far superior.
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[font=&quot]As I stated yesterday, that is the only model you can (Nano) run with. It has a flash drive not a mechanical drive. The sound is the same unless the bitrate is different on each. I do not run all day long on 4 to 5 hours (26 miles) every 4 days and 90% of the non-Nano models WILL break compared to my smaller Mp3 player. Seen it many times with Ipods.[/font]
 
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