What is illegal
 

I own most of my downloads, only most are on Tape, thats why I am re downloading most of the music. I payed for it once already, now I just need it on a new format. If there where a good way to get tapes onto digital and have quality, I would do it. So since I allready paid my royalties once I fee fine with the downloads. Who can afford to convert there entire old cassette collection to CD, and who would want to since most tapes only have one to three decent songs anyway. I also put alot of my paid for CD's on my computer since I have an incredible large Hard Drive 240 Gig.

How can they tell if my file is from CD, Download or from Cassette. Is there anyway to tell the diff.

Last time I looked on Kazaa there where over 3 million users online sharing like 3 billion or something outrageous files, how are they gonna make a dent in that.

Re: What is illegal
 

It is the song that is copyrighted. It does not matter if you took it from a CD or a cassette (not even your own). You can't reproduce it without legal consentment from the author.

Ivan
In the dark we make a brighter light

Re: Re: What is illegal
 

It depends on the law of your homecountry. In Germany you are allowed to copy CDs, cassettes, etc for private use but you aren´t allowed to crack the copy protection... so in Germany it would be no problem.

@ thevy

Ask www.google.com for more information about the law of your homecountry.

Morgwen