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Originally Posted by Mr Cassata
If the CD is copy-protected, it means the music company doesn't want you to copy it. It doesn't mean it's illegal to do so.
They can tell you that they don't like copying and can even try to prevent you from doing so. The fact is that you're not stealing from them, as long as you don't hand copies out to your friends/put the mp3's on a filesharing network/sell ripped CD's/etc... They don't lose anything from someone buying a CD and listening to it by himself/herself, be it an mp3 player, computer, CD, tape.
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No, it is a very common misconception, also a very gray area of copyright law which is constantly being tested because the laws can't keep up with the speed at which technology changes. The term copyright means the right to copy, without the copyright you cannot legally copy the material for any reason, profit related or not (there are, I know, exceptions to this on which you could base a substantial legal textbook). Analogies to video recording is also not accepatable since exceptions are specific not general. Read the link in my previous post for more info