Originally Posted by RHurley
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Rip CD's you own and keep them on your hard drive and for your personal use = no problem,

rip CD's you own and keep them on your hard drive and let anyone on the Internet download them = problem.

Hutchingsp
Sorry to say that your comment above is NOT what the Legal Action is about. I thought the same until I did some digging behind the article. The action being taken is SPECIFICALLY about "Unauthorized Copies" of CD's being Illegal

I'm certainly not a lawyer, but I was going off this site Ten Reasons Why which seemed a rational way of interpreting it for a layman i.e. it entirely hinges on semantics and the fact the chap shared the files out which was not authorized.

No point arguing over it as, as I said I'm no lawyer�and may well be totally wrong, but from what I could interpret into plain English from the PDF of the brief it doesn't seem, to me, to imply that simply ripping the CD's is the problem, it was ripping them and putting them in his shared Kazaa folder.