Do you make mp3s from your cd collection?

If you do, you may want to read this:

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I don't know about you guys, but to me this is sounding like they are going off the deep end. I can partly understand going after someone who steals music, but to go after them because they took songs they paid for and made them function on their Ipod, that is crazy, what is next?

 

All my cd's go to mp3 as soon as I buy them. Been doing it for a while. I guess I'm in trouble.

 

That's total bull****. There should be public out cry on this for sure. It seems they want you to buy the same song for each type of media you happen to listen to it on. So if I have a CD player in my car I have to buy it again for my mp3 player?

 

Don't the mess created by Sony with their rootkit fiasco, installing copyright software on people's computers without disclosing it.


Let's not forget the little gem spouted by Jamie Kellner, in 2002 (he used to be the ceo of turner Broadcasting):

He was talking about people who use video recorders to watch television shows later and how they tend to skip the commercials.

On the heels of that point of view, Phillips designs a television that disables the ability to change channels or change how loud it is when a commercial is playing, imagine that.



I am starting to get the feeling that these entertainment companies see us all as mindless cows, and treating us that way too by taking us to slaughter when we dare to not follow the path they are setting for us like in this story.

 

If the companies were not so greedy and charging such exorbitant prices for the music in the first place then there would not be such a problem, I think they need to look to themselves for what has caused all of the illegal downloading etc.

As for whether I make copies of my CDs, of course I do. Hot Car + CD in the summer always wrecks the CD, why should I pay twice for the same thing?

Idiots!

 

Just because violating copyright laws is easy does not make it right.

 

It's a bad law. I bought the CD. I didn't borrow it. I didn't steal it. I should be able to do what I like with it.

 

That's like making a law that says if I buy a steak I can't make hambuger out of it.

 

There's something wrong in this world when it's illegal and undesirable to share.. F*ck money..


Let em go work their asses off like everyone else and tour live to make money. Ans since at present it seems there is no way to police the music industry unless the artist themselves do it, like Prince. What a moron. Seems they aint got much choice. I don't think fining some average stiff who makes $10 an hour, $500,000 will save their past business orgy... Hahahaha

I don't make mp3's.. I have all the cd's I bought burned to my hard drive. I have burned discs of various songs to listen to in the car and wherever. I'm sure I'm looking at 30 years and/or a $2,000,000 dollar fine. I even borrowed and downloaded a few cd's of my cousins.. I'm like freakin Jesse James.