It may be helpful to think of professional wedding photos. You are not
allowed to take a photo to the printer and have one exact copy made for
your parents, or even for your own bedroom, because it's copyrighted by
the photographer. The printer will refuse if it looks too professional,
or ask you to prove that you took the original, mainly since you don't
have negatives. 

In my opinion (which is not a lawyer's), slimserver itself operates in
the gray area. The audio home recording act allows for a copy to be
made to cd-r, as royalties have been paid on blank discs and digital
tape, but nowhere is a hard disk drive mentioned. Last time I checked
even the RIAA said it's 'ok' to use the iPod etc, but only informally
(and contrarily to other statements of theirs). It would be nice to
have a legal precedent, and I think the Electronic Frontier Foundation
has a petition online you can sign in support of a more technologically
minded bill.


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