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Rip CDs Directly to Your iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-ready-for-someone-to-toss-a-lawsuit dept.

Kevin writes "A company out of Taiwan has released a device that rips audio cds directly to your iPod. It converts them to MP3 and even does all the tagging for you." Zettabyte, the company producing the units, hopes to hit market within the year and while it could work for any MP3 player, it is being marketed exclusively for the iPod right now.

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  1. Re:How Long by Otis2222222 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'd like to see them try. If you own a physical CD, ostensibly one that you bought legally, and you copy its contents to your iPod, no laws have been broken. If you got said CD from your neighbor there could be issues, but I'd say that a device like the one in question has, as they say, "substantial non infringing uses".

    After all, if it's well established that you can legally use an iPod in the first place, then what is the legal difference between putting a CD in your computer, ripping it, and copying it to your ipod versus eliminating the middleman and copying the CD to your iPod directly?

  2. Small market... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is the actualy intersect of people who own digital music players but don't own a computer? It's hard to imagine too many iPod owners out that that don't have a computer...

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  3. Re:How Long by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This just takes out the "computer" step.

    One would think that the RIAA would be more supportive of this than it would be of CD-ripping in iTunes for that very reason.