In Reply to: Ethics of ripping CD's borrowed from my township library posted by hifi heretic on May 1, 2012 at 15:16:00:
No dispute: ripping those CDs is illegal. We're told it's illegal because its theft, i.e. you're stealing the profit of the music publisher and the royalty of the artist.
But if you would not have paid for the disc, ripped library copy represents no loss for the publisher or artist. So is it, in reality, theft?
Dmitri Shostakovich
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Follow Ups
- How many of those ripped CDs would you have *bought*? - Feanor 20:07:52 05/01/12 (7)
- RE: How many of those ripped CDs would you have *bought*? - RGA 04:10:51 05/03/12 (4)
- No, your argument is flawed - Feanor 09:03:08 05/03/12 (1)
- RE: No, your argument is flawed - RGA 07:29:02 05/05/12 (0)
- RE: How many of those ripped CDs would you have *bought*? - Tony Lauck 08:09:10 05/03/12 (1)
- No question: it is legally theft ^ - Feanor 09:04:31 05/03/12 (0)
- RE: How about buying used CDs? - Postal Grunt 18:57:07 05/02/12 (1)
- First-sale doctrine - Tony Lauck 07:51:01 05/03/12 (0)