Comments on: Lawmaker: Is CD copy-protection illegal?

Record companies' efforts to protect CDs might violate a 1992 law that allows music listeners to make some personal digital copies of their music, a House Representative says.

cd copy portection nuisance not protective

I ways always under the assumption that owners of cds could copy them for their own use, i.e. to protect their investment. I have already had to replace cds in my collection that are over 10 years old, and I find the new batch of cd's I have got are all copy protected I cannot copy them or record to my mp3 player and this is a nuisance as I now have to play it on my audio player, into my pc and onto my mp3 player, so I can burn a copy fo the car and stash my original safely, (who wants to keep replace stolen cds, my mp3 player software cost me $30 and with a simple cable can bypass all this technology, I do not copy cds and sell them I dont borrow them and rip them down, but I do protect my investment by making copies. In the UK most major stoes sell CD's between £12-16, most supermarkets sell them at less then £10, gues where I go for my cd's. I have no problem with paying as price to give the artist their income or to the company to produce the ablum, but the UK cost is ridiculess and all it is doing is opening up the market for fraudulent copies, there will never be a 100% copy proof cd so why waste money trying to create it and increasing the costs or alientating your customers. A recent survey in the UK sated that theft of tv's hifi's was reducing because people wanted brand new not cheap seconds, the same goes for cd and dvd copies, if the price is right people will buy it istead of a copy, if companies keep putting up the prices more people will buy the copies, the 80-20 rule will probaly aply to this as well, in that 20% of all customers will steal inrespective of any precautions you make, so make the 80% so happy they keep coming back and generate enough income that you can right of the 20%.

cd copy portection nuisance not protective

I ways always under the assumption that owners of cds could copy them for their own use, i.e. to protect their investment. I have already had to replace cds in my collection that are over 10 years old, and I find the new batch of cd's I have got are all copy protected I cannot copy them or record to my mp3 player and this is a nuisance as I now have to play it on my audio player, into my pc and onto my mp3 player, so I can burn a copy fo the car and stash my original safely, (who wants to keep replace stolen cds, my mp3 player software cost me $30 and with a simple cable can bypass all this technology, I do not copy cds and sell them I dont borrow them and rip them down, but I do protect my investment by making copies. In the UK most major stoes sell CD's between £12-16, most supermarkets sell them at less then £10, gues where I go for my cd's. I have no problem with paying as price to give the artist their income or to the company to produce the ablum, but the UK cost is ridiculess and all it is doing is opening up the market for fraudulent copies, there will never be a 100% copy proof cd so why waste money trying to create it and increasing the costs or alientating your customers. A recent survey in the UK sated that theft of tv's hifi's was reducing because people wanted brand new not cheap seconds, the same goes for cd and dvd copies, if the price is right people will buy it istead of a copy, if companies keep putting up the prices more people will buy the copies, the 80-20 rule will probaly aply to this as well, in that 20% of all customers will steal inrespective of any precautions you make, so make the 80% so happy they keep coming back and generate enough income that you can right of the 20%.

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