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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:35:10 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Jan 31, 9:19 pm, wrote:

I'm not offering definitive legal advice, but if I understand it
correctly, it's not illegal to download music (for personal use) if you
already own a "hard copy" and retain the hard copy.


It appears that such use of your CD/album collection is a copyright/
fair use murky area, and that the RIAA would like it to be illegal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122800693.html

HTH,
B

And I'm sure Bill and Hil would like it to be illegal for anyone to vote
for anyone but them, but...

KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON!
KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON!
KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON!

Seriously, though, one part of me would L-O-V-E to get such a letter
from RIAA and, of course, another part wouldn't want the hassle. I
guess I wouldn't ASK for one, but I'd have one hell of a good time with
it if I got one....FWIW, I don't "share" stuff in the Napster sense, but
I do have (some) electronic copies of "hard" copies (music and print) of
media that I have purchased and in Larry's case, if I had an electronic
copy, since he has a "hard" copy that he purchased, I'd send him a
personal-use electronic copy.

Ooh! You make us wet!

IAC, I think as long as there is not even a scintilla of evidence that
the person who made the electronic, personal-use copy either "shared" it
or didn't retain the "hard" copy, the RIAA is **** out of both luck and
sense in filing such a pleading.

How fortunate for us that you have rendered the courts and the rest of the
American legal apparatus obsolete and null. Now we can all go out and do as
we please without fear of pesky legal repercussions.

Wolfgang
oprah oprah emeril absinthe absinthe emeril.