On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Gregory Weston wrote:
It is (legal, I mean), no matter what the RIAA thinks. They've made it
quite clear that as far as they're concerned, any given license to
experience recorded content covers the pairing of content and medium. As
such, the fact that you have Jethro Tull's "This Was" on CD, LP, 8-track
and DAT doesn't mean you have the right to listen to it from an analog
tape you've made by recording one of those other sources (in their
world). So far, the courts have not agreed with them.
Spooky. That album is one of the few I've downloaded with bittorrent... I
owned it on vinyl many years ago, so I was able to justify the "theft" to
myself (and that's all that matters, as far as I'm concerned).