If the seller provides the cd as welll, then this is completely legal. What's not legal is to make copies of stuff and sell the copies without giving the purchaser the main cd as well. The copy on the ipod would then considered to be a personal backup copy. But it's not legal nor fair for companies to use one copy of a cd or dd and to load it on an ipod and sell thousands of copies without paying the content provider.
Actually, it absolutely falls under the purview of fair use that whatever YOU buy, should be available to you on ANY medium. You have the RIGHT to move things from your car, to your cd player, to your computer, etc. Although content providers are trying to restrict this right, they are actually violating the fair use doctrine. OVer time, consumers will win on this point in courts. I think the IPOD preloading issue is a nonissue if people are paying for the additional content.
Piracy is not nearly as rampant as you think. Many content providers are taking advantage of the fact that computers transfer information via copying, and are trying to attach copyright law where it doesn't really belong. Piracy is a very loaded word, and shouldn't be used widely or lightly.
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If the seller provides the cd as welll, then this is completely legal. What's not legal is to make copies of stuff and sell the copies without giving the purchaser the main cd as well. The copy on the ipod would then considered to be a personal backup copy. But it's not legal nor fair for companies to use one copy of a cd or dd and to load it on an ipod and sell thousands of copies without paying the content provider.
Actually, it absolutely falls under the purview of fair use that whatever YOU buy, should be available to you on ANY medium. You have the RIGHT to move things from your car, to your cd player, to your computer, etc. Although content providers are trying to restrict this right, they are actually violating the fair use doctrine. OVer time, consumers will win on this point in courts. I think the IPOD preloading issue is a nonissue if people are paying for the additional content.
Well, and McD's encourages "to go" stuff, but was not interested in making their portable coffee safe as well....can't have it both ways, fools....
I don't know about you but I like to OWN my music.
Piracy is not nearly as rampant as you think. Many content providers are taking advantage of the fact that computers transfer information via copying, and are trying to attach copyright law where it doesn't really belong. Piracy is a very loaded word, and shouldn't be used widely or lightly.