You're both right actually. Fair use - along with the Digital Millenium copyright act - provide some reasonable ways for you to listen to your music. However, since you are purchasing a license to the content (not the content itself) a provider can specifically deny or limit how/where you can listen to your music. Thus, copying a CD to your PC (not all of your friends) is okay. Copying that to your MP3 player is okay. However, if the vendor lists only specific MP3 players it can be played on than that's it - but if they 'suggest' MP3 players that's different. Bottom line - if you're not sure, ASK. You may find out it's okay to put it onto your particular MP3 player or if you tell them what you have they may add it to their 'approved' list.
Ah, the joys of digital rights management.. Anybody for a long, slow root canal? At least with that you get some decent pain meds. Mike From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Froehle Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] No more internet radio? On 3/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:edward.fultz%40comcast.net> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:edward.fultz%40comcast.net> > wrote: > You bought the music. From my understanding the "fair use" laws allow > you to use it as you desire so long as you don't rent it, copy it for sale, etc. No, you may think you did, but you didn't actually purchase the _music_. You merely purchased a license to listen to the content on the medium you paid for. In a nutshell, you bought packaging and the music company agreed to let you listen to what's in that packaging as long as you don't copy/modify/distribute it beyond that packaging. That's what has so many people fed up with "buying" music -- the companies aren't selling us what we really think we're buying (or want to buy). [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
