01-06-2008, 12:50 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Originally Posted by silverhawk
im not surprised that theyve passed the law against copying music from CDs. What did surprised me is that they charged a person $9,250 per song. they should sue software makers which allow users to copy music from their CDs through their softwares. thats just my opinion.
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Under Fair Use Copyright laws around the world, making a personal copy of any music, movie, game etc that you legally own is fine. However, when the US created the DMCA, the act of circumventing any copy protections on a piece of media, regardless of it's your legal copy, was made illegal. So under fair play, you're allowed to make a personal copy, but because you're new CD has some shitty copy protection on it, it's illegal for you to burn it, rip it to your HDD etc.
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