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Yahoo Plans Its Own Music Player, Download Service
iPod writes "Since late last year, Yahoo has been developing its own music player software, which will be underpinned by a subscription and download service provided by MusicNet, sources familiar with the plan said. Yahoo is developing its own music player software, backed by MusicNet-provided downloads and subscriptions, that it plans to run alongside the recently purchased Musicmatch."
Yes, their collection is incomplete, but there's still a huge selection of good stuff.
Not everybody is suited for the streaming approach -- some really prefer to burn CDs for the car, etc -- but for those that are suited for streaming, it's pretty neat.
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
D'oh... please ignore the previous post.
I rip them from my own CD's and trade with friends (since we paid for the CD, we can make copies and give them out for free to anyone we want, regardless of what the RIAA says)
No, that's what Federal law says. As much as you might hate it and not wish to believe it, it's true. Copyright does exist, and just saying "well it's only for a few friends" does not excuse you from complying with it. You have NO LEGAL RIGHT to copy those copyrighted CD's unless they say you can.
There are limited exceptions for educational fair use, but those don't exactly apply here.
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It is no different than when people used to make copies of tapes back in the 80's and early 90's. Explain to me how it was different back then from today? Not only would people copy tapes for friends, but they would copy music off the radio.
This is too stupid for words. It happens/happened != proof that it is legal. If the fact that people do something precludes it from being illegal, no one could ever do anything illegal. Whether or not copying copyrighted material in this way is legal or illegal is complicated, but the ignorance of your comment isn't.
I knew of stations in the 80's that played music without a DJ talking during the start of the song so people could make copies. And you are going to tell me that today I can't copy what I OWN???
I'm really sick of hearing this. Remarkable as it no doubt is, after spending $15 on a CD, you have not purchased the copyright of an album. You have also not purchased a license that allows you to endlessly copy and redistribute. These are the rights of the copyright holder and those who the copyright holder licenses these rights to. To lapse into familiar words, all you own is an instance of the music. You own the physical disk. You do NOT own the music: the song is owned by a publishing company (e.g. Northern Songs) and the recording is owned by the record company (e.g. EMI).