I am only talking about original CD's that I purchased in the store or from online retailers. I know its legal toCan I give away the CD (not sell) to a friend or co-worker and keep the ripped songs on my PC or mp3 player?
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Actually, purchasing the CD grants you a use license that extends to your immediate family, friends, etc.  You may legally buy a CD, copy a song, and give it to, say, your sister, or your friend.  You cannot, however, post them on the net for people unknown to you to download.  There are several recent federal court cases attempting to decide where to draw the line between the copyright holder's rights and your own usage rights granted by your license.  Example:  if I don't know you, but agree to meet you on the street to exchange ripped music, are we "friends."  Are we "friends" once we've met?  \n\nYour specific question is difficult to answer.  If you purchased the CD's, you can certainly keep the copies on the computer if you threw the CD's away.  However, (and I'm only speculating here) if you sell the CD's, you may have in fact sold the usage rights with them.  Wish I had something more concrete for you!
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If you make an unlicensed copy of a copyrighted work, be it music, video or whatever, you can be in violation of copyright law.\nIt doesn't matter how you make that copy, whether you download it, file-share it, or simply rip a copy of your friend's CD.\nSome sources, for which you pay, include a license fee, a portion of which goes to the copyright holder, so that they get paid for their work...  this makes it a licensed copy, and complies with the rules, so everyone is happy.\n\nCopyright regulations are usually enforced by the copyright holder (or their attorneys), not the government...  in practice, if you are simply ripping a single copy of a CD for your own amusement, they are not going to waste the time and money in tracking you down and taking you to court.\nIf, however, you make copies of their work available online, and hundreds or thousand of copies are being made, then they will take action... especially if somebody else is making money out of it.\n\nThere is a common belief that "If it's on the Internet it's public property"..  it's not, unless the copyright holder has declared it to be "pubic domain" material.  The same is true for pictures that appear on websites.   They're not there to be copied and re-used, although this happens all the time.\n\nThe regulations are not unreasonable... artists make their living from publication revenue...  and you are, effectively, stealing their work by making an unlicensed copy.  If you like their work enough to copy it, isn't it better to keep them in business, so they can do more and nbetter, in the future?
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You can't be totally legal if you give away copyrighted matrial without the consent of the copyright holder. eBooks are still copyrighted the same as real books.\n\nTorrent.com doesn't have those files on their site, they only provide a way for other users to say "hey I have these files, do you want them?" it is the file holders and the file receivers that are trading copyrighted materials.
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If you don't have to sell them online, call up a local used music store in your town.  I've sold cds of mine to those kind of shops before.  \n\nIf you must sell them online, try www.craigslist.org\n\nYou can buy, sell, trade pretty much everything on there from furniture to music to cars.  It is categorized by location so make sure to check it out, you never know, you might have the cd that someone is dying to find!
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The cd has to be in a perfect condition, preferably brand new. You have to have a cd-r or cd-rw drive in your cpu. Also, the song format you are burning to the cd have to be compatible with your cd player. Read your cd-player manual to find out the format of songs it can play. Then burn the songs of that format to a cd with no scratches. \n\nGood luck.
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If you burned them in an mp3 format, your CD player isn't capable of playing mp3's.  Some CDs can handle that format, and some cannot.
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Interesting question.\n\nFirst. If the music is copyrighted, and 99.9% of music is, you can't. I should say you shouldn't unless you want to be shut down.\n\nOther than that try Geocities.
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that's a fancy way of saying that the music license will not allow the file to be burned to CD.\n\nNow, if you were to analog record the music with a program like Wavepad and then burn it to CD, i guess there would be no way to stop you...\n\nremoving DRM from music is illegal.  creating unprotected recorded copies IS perfectly legal (so long as you actually own the music legally).
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bitcomet.com  download the program then you will dowload the entire CD.  if you dont want all of the tracks, then uncheck the ones you dont want to dowload.  its really really easy.
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limewire\nitunes\nthe "illegal copying of the cd that belongs to the library and then returning it while u have a copy or it is in your comp." method
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No, not if it's the radio. It's a different matter if you're playing a  CD because then you need a Public Performance Licence (PPL) but radio broadcasts are treated as public domain material and the station will have it's own PPL.
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You need a MP3 Ripper to rip music from CD...\nGet free MP3 Music Ripper from: http://www.mgshareware.com/frmmain.shtml\n\nAlso, while uploading your songs to online storage...do check out the policies of the service provider as most oppose such uploads of copyrighted material!\nIf you are trying to upload them to a webhosting server, then definitely check them for file size & file extension support restrictions...\nEnjoy!
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As a general rule, piracy involves the unauthorised use or distribution (particularly for commercial purposes) of material that is protected by copyright law. Individual contracts, such as those included in license agreements you get when you buy new software or download from the Internet, can override general copyright provisions. If you bought the CD, you might have bought a license to listen to and reproduce for non-commercial purposes the material on the CD, or you might not -- it depends on the specific CD and the publisher's terms and conditions of sale.\n\nSo, the answer to your question will depend where you live, where you bought the CD, where you are downloading it and downloading it from, and what -- if any -- license to use the contents of the CD is included by the publisher/distributor. There is no easy answer to your question: it depends too much on jurisdiction, the law that applies in any particular state/country/region, and the particular CD in question.\n\nSorry this isn't more helpful, but you can't get a reliable answer to a specific legal question unless you provide specific details in the first place.
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It can depend on where the music is coming from.  If it is from a site that allows music downloads, that should go right to it.  If you've searched for it, and listened to it straight from the site then, while it is playing, go to file and select save media.  If a friend burned a CD for you it will go right there from the CD, when you view what is in the CD.
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The programs to download/share files are legal.\n\nUsing them to download copyright protected files (i.e.. most music files) is illegal if you do not pay for them.\n\nUse I-Tunes.  The program is free - the music is not. But it is legal.
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I say to use imesh or kazaa to download the song. Afterall, if your too cheap to buy it then you should get nailed for stealing it.
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You cannot do this legally (in the US anyway, due to the DMCA of 1998).  The iTunes songs are DRM-crippled and you are denied access to your normal rights to fair use.