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Yes, I believe you are required to

But I'm not the music police either.

A friend of mine seriously asked if me if he could copy my iTunes library comprising 30 days of music in apple lossless files and I told him no way. First of all, it would be theft from the labels and artists whether he paid me or not, and second of all I'm not giving away music that took me weeks to rip to my hard drive. I though he was nuts to even ask - he was nonplused that I said no. Sigh.

I buy a lot of music, mostly on CDs, then LPs, and lastly a few random downloads. But I do occasionally rip library CDs and CDs my friends lend me. Of course my friend reminded me of that as though there wasn't any difference between what he was asking to do versus an occasional library rip or borrowed CD rip. I don't know, maybe he's right, but degrees matter to me. Of course I shouldn't do it at all, but then no one's perfect. What this guy on Audiogon is doing is pretty obviously criminal, and I wouldn't buy from him "assuming" he isn't keeping a copy, regardless of the price.
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