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RE: Ethics of ripping CD's borrowed from my township library

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First time poster.

I'm amazed that no one has gone beyond the issue of making a copy of the library CD. Is the local library system where I live the only one that now allows people to skip the physical buildings themselves and simply download material, including CDs? At what point does the content, music in this case, go from borrowing to keeping? The music that is downloaded here is not streaming. It comes in an MP3 format that is saved to the hard drive and then opened to hear. So I suppose that everyone simply listens to it and then immediately deletes the file.

The reality is that technology is moving ever faster and that especially applies to media content and how it is presented. The recording companies have no one but themselves to blame for where they now find themselves. Their greed blinded them to the need in investing for future changes. They have had numerous opportunities to change their obviously antiquated business model and yet refused. The exact same thing can be seen with the movie industry, the cable and satellite companies, and the cellular business.

Is it on this board that someone recently posted the question asking how many people listen to an entire album in one setting. I couldn't believe that every single reply was yes. Talk about dating yourself. :) Very few people listen to LPs and CDs probably are on their last moments. This doesn't mean that users of older formats are somehow condemned to a special place but time does move on.

Clearly, many of these changes still do not deal with the question that the OP presented and I didn't mean to get into one of my favorite topics, that of the convergence of communication hardware and software. Ultimately, some sort of model will need to be created that effectively allows the artist to work directly with the consumer. Artists do not work for free and should be rewarded. But screw Hollywood et al and the parasites that add no value to the transaction.

For what it's worth, I am probably older than most of the people that post here and still have my old LPs purchased while in college. The reel to reel tapes were tossed out several decades ago and the cassettes followed somewhere in the 90s. Almost no CDs at all. Everything is on the hard drives now which will soon go from being mechanical platters to SSDs.


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