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Ethics of ripping CD's borrowed from my township library

Curious to know others' thoughts on this..

Lately, I've been borrowing CD's from my township library and ripping them. While it is true that my local taxes pay for these, it is also true that the artist derives no incremental gain from this practice. Am I a thief or just an opportunist?

EDIT ADDED 5/2/12 2:53p.

alright already. point well taken. Sheesh. I hope all of you who wagged a finger are truly guiltless. ..So you never burned a copy of a sister's CD, or made a mix tape using some of your buddy's LP's???

..Though usually not one to succumb to peer pressure, I've decided to do the following.

All 6 CD's I took out yesterday (..just prior to my post) are going back without ripping; though I will probably listen to all of them first.

Of the 21 CD's I previously ripped, I have not listened to 8 of them; I will delete those now. That leaves 13 that I have listened to. ..Of those, 7 are not worth ever listening to again so I will delete those too but will nothing more to "right the wrong". ..They kinda suck, so too bad. ..This leaves 6 that I've listened to more than once. ..Over the next two weeks I will purchase each of these on iTunes (if available) or Amazon (if not..).

EDIT: Comment added 5/3/12 12:47p

Some of you here seem to be extrapolating what I have admitted to doing to mean that I also engaged in other forms of music pilfering.

So that there's no misunderstanding about the breadth of my transgressions let it be known that I have NEVER downloaded music off Napster or movies/TV shows, etc.. off of BitTorrent or any other such peer-to-peer service, etc. Never. Extracting songs from CDs I check out of the library struck me as different because these CDs were legally obtained by a library which I support with my local taxes (and book and cd donations). Moreover, it seemed clear that the artists compensation was unchanged whether I loaded the songs onto my HD or I returned time and again to the library check the CDs out.

Still, I recognize this was a mistake and will do as described above



Edits: 05/01/12 05/02/12 05/03/12

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Topic - Ethics of ripping CD's borrowed from my township library - hifi heretic 15:16:00 05/01/12 (99)

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