So let's say I roll down to a garage sale and find the band Poison's worst songs of the 1980s on vinyl for two pence (that's two pence more than it's worth). By your logic, is it okay for me to now get online and download that?
Buy (Digital Copy) == Digital Copy
Buy CD ----> Bring home and Rip it == Digital Copy
Buy old vinyl record/tape/8-Track ----> Bring home and analog Rip it == Digital Copy
Do any of these and the downloading should still be legal (since it results in the same Digital Copy) , albeit faster than doing your own digital conversions.
on the other hand you talked about going to a garage sale to pick up an old copy of something which you could legally bring home and Rip yourself but...
Buy old vinyl record/tape/8-Track ----> Get tired of it ----> Sell at garage sale to recoup some of your originally spent money.
Buy CD ----> Get tired of it ----> Sell at garage sale to recoup some of your originally spent money.
Buy (Digital Copy) ----> Get tired of it ----> Delete it
Of course, you would likely have paid the same price for the Digital Purchase, if not more if you purchased songs individually, which considering distribution costs means that the labels made a much higher profit, and also took the future value away from you at the same time.
I could care less about Google passively tracking my site browsing to deliver me targeted ads for a legitimate business purpose. What I do care about is the government tracking my law abiding behavior for no reason other than the illusion of protecting the children, public, or me from myself. As a law abiding citizen, I want the freedom to opt out of government spying, and data mining, about my life, which they can use it for any purpose of their choosing.
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So let's say I roll down to a garage sale and find the band Poison's worst songs of the 1980s on vinyl for two pence (that's two pence more than it's worth). By your logic, is it okay for me to now get online and download that?
Buy (Digital Copy) == Digital Copy
Buy CD ----> Bring home and Rip it == Digital Copy
Buy old vinyl record/tape/8-Track ----> Bring home and analog Rip it == Digital Copy
Do any of these and the downloading should still be legal (since it results in the same Digital Copy) , albeit faster than doing your own digital conversions.
on the other hand you talked about going to a garage sale to pick up an old copy of something which you could legally bring home and Rip yourself but...
Buy old vinyl record/tape/8-Track ----> Get tired of it ----> Sell at garage sale to recoup some of your originally spent money.
Buy CD ----> Get tired of it ----> Sell at garage sale to recoup some of your originally spent money.
Buy (Digital Copy) ----> Get tired of it ----> Delete it
Of course, you would likely have paid the same price for the Digital Purchase, if not more if you purchased songs individually, which considering distribution costs means that the labels made a much higher profit, and also took the future value away from you at the same time.
Not that I disagree with any of these, but Apple has similar issues in some cases, including their update reboots (duh) and even DRM - http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/19/2218217
*begins looking for jobs in Utah* ;-)
I could care less about Google passively tracking my site browsing to deliver me targeted ads for a legitimate business purpose. What I do care about is the government tracking my law abiding behavior for no reason other than the illusion of protecting the children, public, or me from myself. As a law abiding citizen, I want the freedom to opt out of government spying, and data mining, about my life, which they can use it for any purpose of their choosing.