mflint;194129 Wrote: > It is silly though. I'm not ashamed to say I've taken copies of music > from friends. If I like it, I'll buy it. If I don't, it gets sent to > /dev/null. Everyone's a winner surely?
Well it makes sense, but not to the major record companies! In most countries, copyright breach is not theft, whatever the record companies say, so your friend in law enforcement would not care much - it's usually a civil thing, not a criminal thing. However, he would normally do best to stay clear of something so morally dubious ;) Even the old days of creating a compilation tape for your friends is copyright breach, sadly, in the UK at least. Giving them copies of huge sections of your library is not really justifiable, IMO. Ultimately fair use can only really be taken to be ripping and backing up for yourself, not creating copies for friends, irrespective of the profit. You might be willing to argue that you are providing an interim library while your friend rips his own CDs in, with the expectation that he will delete it when he has a reasonable library himself, but I wouldn't want to argue this as fair use in court! I think that the best thing to do is use your own moral guidance: - Do you think it's fair to give away the fruits of someone else's labour? - Do you think it's fair to lend to your friend while he gets his own stuff sorted? - Do you think it's fair to give your friend mainstream stuff that he could hear on the radio and from artists that are really rich already? - Do you think it's fair to give your friend compilations of some cool stuff, artists that he might buy the albums of if he likes them? - etc etc etc Whatever you really think is fair, do. No-one will consider you evil, except the RIAA and its equivalents, and you will know they are wrong :) Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost and Anti-cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34366 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
