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Originally posted by yournamehere
I already bought the albums once (albeit 20 years ago), but since there's no turntable in my car (or house, for that matter), I put them on CDs. And I'm not paying again.
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In that particular case, you wouldnt need to buy the albums again to be legal, you already own the rights to that music in any format, I think thats the home recording act.. its the same basis as Roms and emulators. its not illegal to play roms on an emulator if you own the game already. Its perfectly legal to download the MP3's of the songs that are already in your paid for albums. Thats why Kazaa could also be considered a Legal enterprise. How many times have you scratched a CD to be unplayable and wasted all that money, or broke a beautiful vinyl album and obviously were unable to play that again? If you download the songs that were on those albums, thats perfectly legal.