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Nerdy Fish3/15/2010 10:27:11 am PDT

re: #84 Jeff In Ohio

Well, I’m not sure exactly what your talking about. Except for DRM’d files, which hardly exist and when they did, they were failry easy to defeat, I’m not sure what prevents your from ripping a CD to your drive and using it with in the confines of the license and Fair Use.

Many music CD’s these days are DRM’d to prevent being ripped at all, for starters. DRM’d digital download files are in a similar situation. I don’t think DRM was the correct solution to the problem, but I can’t tell you what the correct solution should be, either. It is an extremely complex problem.