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euain
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: UK
 
2006-03-15, 07:01

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Originally Posted by atomicbartbeans
YI'm sick of the terminology content providers use here... I don't license content I buy, I own it. Do you get a EULA with the purchase of a DVD? A CD*?

The truth is, I can legally do whatever I want with a CD I buy in the store. I can rip it to iTunes (and at a higher bitrate as well) and play it on all my computers (including Linux), burn mix CDs, put them on my iPod, whatever. Fair Use has allowed me to do this since I was born. I paid good money for that CD, so I can listen to it however the hell I want.
But this ripping/fair use is exactly what you are not allowed to do with a DVD. It is against the law in the US (and probably over here too?) to circumvent the copy protection on a DVD.

I am pretty sure that you don't own the contents when you buy a CD either. You certainly don't own any copyright on it and can't do whatever you want with it. You aren't allowed to copy it and give it to all your friends, sell copies, claim it's your own material etc.
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