CD Ripping

[JamesL]

If I've ripped a CD onto my PC or MP3 Player, and I've sold or traded that CD, do I still have rights to the music on my PC?
And I haven't been keeping up with the latest legalities, but is DVD-ripping still illegal?

thanks
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Mod Edit - An interesting topic, to be sure, but off topic for General [H]ardware. Thanks - BlindedByScience

 

[tiraides]

Legally, no.

If you give up the physical CD, I believe that you can't have a "copy" of said CD. I don't know how that works, let alone enforced, especially now when MP3 music is available for sale without (and, in some cases, with) a physical "copy."

As for DVD ripping, it is technically illegal under the DMCA because in order to do so, you'd have to bypass the encryption used on the disc -- and bypassing any digial encryption is illegal under the DMCA. The irony is that it's still legal to make a "backup copy" of whatever you buy to protect the original media.

 

[Hooligan]

I'm such a law breaker. I've been giving girflriends mix tapes and burned cd's for the last 10 years!


oh noes

 

[Albanu1800]

It is illegal to distribute copies for resale (for your own profit). If you keep a copy for yourself it's cool. Just as with a copied DVD.

It's the guy who has a whole operation going in a warehouse who has copies going accross the county who gets caught.

 

[RAMBO29]

if there is no profit or u dnt sell it,I think legally its still "borrowing" or keeping a safe copy.