You're mistaken. It is permissable to copy music for personal use from media you have purchased. You may, for instance, copy music from a CD onto your computer, and then onto an MP3 player. You can't copy music from media someone else has purchased.
Actually, to be more accurate, you can, but the person who purchased the media can't let you. The copyright law forbids distribution of copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder, with no stipulation concerning money changing hands.
So, if you buy Vista, and you can find a way to make the sounds play in Linux, then more power to you. But you can't copy the sounds from someone else's copy of Vista.
-EdM.
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You're mistaken. It is permissable to copy music for personal use from media you have purchased. You may, for instance, copy music from a CD onto your computer, and then onto an MP3 player. You can't copy music from media someone else has purchased. Actually, to be more accurate, you can, but the person who purchased the media can't let you. The copyright law forbids distribution of copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder, with no stipulation concerning money changing hands. So, if you buy Vista, and you can find a way to make the sounds play in Linux, then more power to you. But you can't copy the sounds from someone else's copy of Vista. -EdM.