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RE: Ripping CDs?
Bottem line: it depends from country to country.
But indeed, in general, when you buy a CD you buy the right to listen to that music from the CD, nothing else! When you buy a CD you are indeed not the owner of the content; you do not buy the rights or licenses of ownership nor the rights to copy it, alter it (eg: converting it to another format, which is what happens when you put it on a media player), or whatever. You even don't buy the rights to play it in public! The legality of "copying it one time for your own use" highly depends on your local laws though.
In practice: I wouldn't be too worried if you just want to copy the music to your portable media player or whatever you wanna do with it for your own personal use. I never heared of someone being arrested because of that. However, be aware that, in theory, they could confiscate the player when you're travelling abroad.
This post was edited on 06-06-2008 at 08:31 PM by CookieRevised.
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