COPY WITH CAUTION

According to the web link below, a court has ruled against an appeal put to them by the record labels. The record labels want to make it LEGAL to copy CD's from one format to another for instance to put your CD onto itunes to play the music you need to buy another copy from itunes etc. The record labels think this is damaging and wants to enable listeners to do this.

For once I agree with the big record labels and see their point as this
From the courts perspective and law yes you are copying the music but their argument is flawed because the user of the music is using it for their pleasure, the reason they bought the CD in the first place.

Firstly, to an extent users should be able to use the product they purchased to the best of its ability and how they wish, as long as it is not harming anyone or anything (such as the industry). Most listeners if not all use MP3/ipods in this period, not cassette /CD players, what is this the dark ages. With that said vinyl is on the rise and the cassette charts are back. However, this is going off the point we need to focus on the future and artists/management need to appeal to the masses and currently that is still within the CD market so everything should be done to help artists, consumers, market and industry!

It won't make a difference some might say, someone can still buy a CD and rip it onto computer. On a small scale they might be right but consider future technology, computers are moving away from disk drives on systems meaning more downloads and more memory usage for digital programs. And if you consider the apps and media such as itunes, the corporations might limit users from uploading CD's onto these programs at all, making the CD's even more redundant. Meaning artists could loose out and the beauty that came with albums such as artwork, special notes, lost for generations to come. I personally still like to get physical music, one because they look beautiful, two i get signed by the artists that put their hard work into it and thirdly because digital music is easily lost with a touch of a button.

This ruling maybe appealed again but one thing is for certain this could kill off the CD for good.

More details see article here: http://www.music-news.com/shownews.asp?H=Copying-music-from-CD-to-computer-illegal&nItemID=91435