But should you get caught making MP3s off a
protected CD, you can be sued and/or arrested (hypothetically speaking). It is quite possible that
some of the security on CDs is intentionally weak. It saves development costs and allows the copyright
holder to pursue anyone who has ripped the CD because there is no legal means of doing so.
But that is just speculation.
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Relatively few audio CDs come with protection of any kind, particularly those CDs already owned
by the world??™s audiophiles. If you make fair-use copies of materials you own for your own use, you??™re
not likely to have to worry about anything. If you should decide to transport copyrighted works in
a public forum (peer-to-peer networks for example), you are rolling the dice. The RIAA (Recording
Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have both
successfully located and sued users??”including children??”distributing content illegally online.
One attempt to allow sharing, remixing, and reusing legally is the Creative Commons
Project. As of this writing, the project is five years old and over 25,000 items are posted.
You can find more information at http://creativecommons.org/.
Two sites worth exploring are Jamendo (www.
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