OK, so I get nearly all my music (classical and opera
) from the local music library. I've copied 1,200 CDs and ripped them into AACs. (Around 100 gigs). I've been doing this for 2 years.
(I only own 3 CDs)
Question is, is this legal?
Reason I'm asking is because at my college today I borrowed a CD and the librarian said that If i were a music major and if I were to copy this CD and Sheet Music, I'd be expelled from school.
So I'm now guessing that I stole "$10,000" of music.
Now I feel bad...............
Struggling artists like Midori, Anne Sophie Mütter, Maria Callas have been shortchanged by me. (i know that i wrote that sentence in the passive, but I didn't feel like going back and inserting a subject).
Before I thought that the public owned these recordings, and I, as a taxpayer could make copies.
does anyone know if this is legal?