--- gingerneil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Pale Blue Ego;132382 Wrote: 
> > There's nothing stopping you from using DRM music on the
> Squeezebox. 
> > Burn your DRM downloads to an audio CD (you should do this anyway
> as a
> > backup), then rip them to a lossless format like FLAC.  
> > 
> > Bingo - you have full use of the - legal - download forever.
> 
> No you dont. Generally, changing the format of the recording (ie from
> mp3 to flac) is illegal.

that is simply not true.  if it were, every slimserver user
transcoding at the server would be breaking the law.

at least in the US, space-shifting is not so clear-cut and has
been successfully argued in some cases to be fair use.

Josh


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