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Old 01-07-2008, 09:05 AM
froopy seal
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Re: RIAA going after someone for having mp3 copies of legally purchased CDs
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Originally Posted by Sean
"[...] it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer."
This is the law in Germany if the original CD has "effective copy protection" (no, being cracked does NOT automatically render the copy protection ineffective...), see art. 95a German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz - UrhG). I could imagine the RIAA having the law on their side in the US and the UK, too. Which doesn't make it any better, morally, of course.