b.Would it be fair to give a burned copy of a CD to a friend? What if the friend would not have otherwise pur

Question

13.Burning a custom CD of your favorite music is popular use of secondary storage. Many sites on the Web offer free music that you can download. However, not all music files that are available on the Internet are freely distributable.
a.Is it fair to make a copy on you computer of a CD you have purchased?
b.Would it be fair to give a burned copy of a CD to a friend? What if the friend would not have otherwise purchased that CD?
c.People have been making illegal copies of music cassette tapes for some time. Why is using the Internet to make and distribute copies of music receiving so much attention?

Answer 1

Is that your question? Do you want opinions about argument b?

Fine. Music market today is crap. The record industries have no one to blame but themselves if no one wants to buy the crap they put out.

The normal trend in technology is for it to become less expensive or more efficient as time goes on. The fact is, the technology has advanced. European CDs are recorded with more than 2 hours of music, while American CDs are still produced following the 45 minute LP format. Also, few CDs include extras, such as videos, or other digital "goodies."

And, the price of CDs has only gone up. The increased prices are used, generally, to pay artist bonuses, art and packaging costs, and other "non-music" issues.

Finally, the music industry was slow to respond to the growing digital revolution in music distribution. Rather than researching ways to facilitate a distribution method which would respond to their concerns, they spent their resources and efforts trying to stop or restrict that medium.

When you legally buy a CD, you have what is called "fair use" of the material. You can play the CD, you can copy the songs to your personal player, and you can copy that music to other media, such as cassettes or other CDs. As mentioned, what you do with those copies, as long as you do not sell them, is covered under that "fair use."

Answer 2

Its totally LEGAL as u had a an original and it broke so by LAW you are entitled to a copy of everything you own, thing is if its a PC version the burnt CD/DVD will mostly probably work, if its a console(xbox) you need to mod it which is ilegal, btw you can use nero, alcohol 120, magicISO and so many other free and cheap programs to make your copy

Answer 3

I see no reason why it would not be fair plus its not against the law either. The only thing u cant do is sell it that's illegal. But just giving it away is more then fair.

Answer 4

Because its traceable. The quality of the dupe is just as good as the original.

Answer 5

you can burn cd's but limited to, u can burn cd's i think but it's for you to use it like personnal use, i think you can give some to your friends but tell them not to sell it you know it's illegal well, i don't really know much lol

Answer 6

if you couldn't do it legally, the tech wouldn't be there...you can't sell a burned copy