I personally feel copy protection is absolute Bovine Shite. I paid good money for the rights to own and listen to a certain piece of music. The copy protection should not limit my ability to make a copy for myself of music I just paid to have the rights to listen to. If I carry a new CD around, say, in the car or to the office, it's likely to get scratched rendering it quasi-usable in my hi-fi system. Not saying it won't play there, but it won't sound as good a a pristine copy because my error correction software has to work overtime to to read through those scratches.
So, if I make a copy for myself, I should have the legal right to do that since I just paid to own the use rights to this music. The second thought here is the fact that I own and use a dual disc Philips CD recorder. This machine will only allow you to use CDR-M's. On that CDR-M, there is a software tag that tells the machine that I have bought a blank CD that I pay and ADDITIONAL royalty so that the musician (supposedly) gets his vig when I make a copy for myself.
Now, all that being said, you need to take a trip to the RIAA site and see just who the largest violators or in the piracy game. The Asian rim, Mexico, the developing nations in northern Europe and Russia and the largest pirates out there. The US, central Europe and Austrailia are way down at the bottom of the list of pirates.
I feel the exact same way about DVD's. I should be able to make a direct copy for my own use since I just paid $20 or more for the LEGAL rights to play this movie at my house for my family (assuming I'm not charging them to watch it).
These little silver disc's we all buy can be very fragile in the hands of someone like my kids or wife. They can get destroyed in a heartbeat. If I destroy a disc I just paid for because of an inferior medium, will the record company or movie studio give me a replacement for free since I've already paid them once for it? ....... fat farging chance.
My point is, I now own the rights to this disc. I paid for them legally per the letter of the law. I should be able to make copies of my music or movies that own. Granted, under those rights I can't distribute these discs, I can only use them for my personal consumption (which is exactly what I do).
I own noumerous discs that are nearly unplayable. None of which are 'pop' music. Two that come to mind are Indiginous' latest album and Robert Randolph and the Family Band's first release. Both of them sound like ca-ca in every machine I've put them in.
The RIAA, the music companies followed closely by the movie studio's should all die slow torturous deaths.
... thats just my opinion, YMMV
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