Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age

So, really, you shouldn't even give them away if you've made a perfect copy.

You could just send them to me Dan......I won't tell anyone...honest.

Cheers,
John

So, really, you shouldn't even give them away if you've made a perfect copy

Absolutley NOT. This is a criminal act. On one hand sharing somem favorites with a friend is no big deal - but giving away an entire collection worth thousands of dollars and keeping a copy for yourself is a CRIME, it is illegal.

This is just as bad as taking CD's from the public library and copying them at home. It is illegal.

One of the reasons we are in such a huge financial crisis right now has a lot to do with ethics, IMHO!

I am no industry insider but I support our music industry and am against pirate copies.

Wasn't thinking of US copyright laws in my post. Should have. My apologies.

Is it legal to lend my CD to strangers?

Recently libraries in my state had lawsuit against them for renting books. It claimed that book was intended for one person only and lending them to many people cuts down on sales and author's profit (true). Is it moral to read a book without paying for that? When you listen to CD from library you might eventually buy it to listen many more times, but once you read book you are not likely to read it again soon.

RIAA receives few cents from every CD or CDr sold in US. Recent lawsuit against them for promoting copy protection says that they cannot receive money from copy protected CD and equivalent quantities of CD-R at the same time.