Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jan 2006 19:20 UTC
"DRM is a lie. When an agenda driven DRM infection peddler gets on a soapbox and blathers about how it is necessary to protect the BMW payments of a producer who leeches off the talented, rest assured, they are lying to you. DRM has absolutely nothing to do with protecting content, it is about protecting the wallets of major corporations. The funny thing is they aren't protecting it from you, they are protecting it from each other."
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2005-07-11
Most people, and even the record labels I believe, consider it completely legal to lend a CD to friends as long as it's not being copied. Also converting the songs to OGG/MP3, or whatever format you prefer, should be ok for personal use.
My logical sense says that when you buy an album you buy the right for it to be played one place at a time.
Many (older) software licences state that you can install the products on as many computers as you like, but only one of the copies is allowed to be running at any given point. To me, this seems like a fair deal, and this is close to what happens when you lend a CD to a friend without it being copied.
Sharing OGG/MP3s, on the other hand, can easily get it spread to people you don't even know. Although sharing with friends is not as bad as publishing on P2P networks, it does get a bit sketchy.