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Because some people in seem to have fallen for the music/film industry's whispered lies: It is perfectly legal for you to rip/copy unprotected music CDs that you get from the library or a friend/family member. It is called (UrhG §53) [1]. This right is the reason you pay a levy on every storage device (SD Card, hard drive etc) you buy. That levy compensates the right holders. However, you officially cannot copy media that are copy protected. 1/7

[1] gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__

www.gesetze-im-internet.de§ 53 UrhG - Einzelnorm

You do NOT have to own the original media to make a . If we are friends, we could meet at my place and you can rip all my CDs to your hard drive and take them home to listen to the music, if you want to.

But note: these copies can only be made for personal use. You cannot share them publicly or for a fee. But you are perfectly fine when you rip an unprotected music CD and put the WAV or MP3s on your player devices. You have paid for that right. You should use it. 2/7

Now, there is a lot of discussions since many years on what constitutes a "working copy protection system" (wirksame Kopierschutzmaßnahmen) that you are not allowed to circumvent to make a copy. Is CSS on DVDs really working, when the code to circumvent has been available as Open Source since many years? Well, I am not a lawyer, so I won't answer that for you. Is copying cached downloads from Spotify allowed under this rule? AFAICS a clear no, but again, IANAL. See irights.info/artikel/privatkop 3/7

iRights.infoMusik und Filme kopieren: Privatkopie und Co. – iRights.infoMusik und Filme auf CDs, DVDs, Videos und anderen Trägern darf man für den privaten Gebrauch vervielfältigen, etwa als Geschenk für Freunde oder auch als Kopie für das Privatarchiv – es sei denn, sie sind kopiergeschützt.  Das Vervielfältigen eines urheberrechtlich geschützten Werkes ist grundsätzlich nur mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers gestattet. Für den privaten Bereich hat […]
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

My real point here is: If you don't use the rights you have, you will lose them. I pick up dozens of music CDs from my local library in every few weeks, rip them to my music collection and bring the CDs back to the library. There is nothing wrong with that. So far 100% of the CDs I got from the library are completely unprotected, no DRM, so all is good. And I have been introduced to a LOT of music that way :)

This thread is part of my "Solutions are better than problems" series ;) 4/7

@jwildeboer Have you ever tried to track down, how much of that will arrive at the artists?

@jwildeboer
Hm, good point, the part with the library CDs is new to me though.

For DRM material it is absurd: lets say I want to delete my Amazon Account or it is deleted by Amazon for whatever reason: I will loose access to my 300 books I bought perfectly legal.

It would be stupid to continue this road so I switched to epub. But I can not legally convert the Kindle books to epub since it is protected material, even though the content can be considered same as a regular book. BS law.

@Vash And that is where you, and many more people go wrong: "I will loose access to my 300 books I bought perfectly legal" — you didn't buy the books. You paid for a limited license that can be modified at any time, it's in the license agreement with Amazon you accepted. Same with digital music you pay for at Apple Music etc. You only get a license. Not a physical copy. We all need to "unlearn" to use the term "buying" for these kind of transactions.

@jwildeboer
Since I don't have a working Kindle, I must convert my .azw purchases into epub under fair-use doctrine (US), which of course Bezos considers illegal

Of course, I'm gay and, therefore, liable to commit crime, so Jeff can suck it
@Vash

@jwildeboer @Vash A number of years ago I worked in customer service for a cable company, and people would "buy" all kinds of movies, then get mad about a rate hike, quite the service for longer than thirty days, then begrudgingly rejoin... only to learn their entire library was gone. Simple gone. Unable to restore.

@jwildeboer @Vash In particular, any website which says "buy" when you are in fact entering into license agreement ... should get fine from someone.

@jwildeboer So how do you rip them? Which software and settings would you recommend for this?