I admit it. I'm an MP3 whore and I love sloppy seconds when it comes to getting free music. Maybe I'm still stuck in mix tape-land, but I will never get over sharing music. This is why every time I go to someone's house I quickly ask if I can take music off their iTunes. Recently my iPod broke and I had to restore is, so of course I was stuck with the four albums I actually own (which includes Fleetwood Mac -ugh!).
Don't let this musical tragety happen to you! After you shamelessly take music from friends, use a great program called iPod Rip to actually move songs from your iPod to your iTunes (reverse download). You do have to buy the program, but only after about 15 free uses - so take a few months, gather your music like a squirrel with nuts before winter, and then greedily make it all yours.
Check it out here: http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip
Monday, November 26, 2007
iShare - It's Illegal but Good for the Environment
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Um, that's still completely illegal. Like 4000% illegal.
How exactly? like exactly.
Just because you aren't downloading the mp3s doesn't make their acquisition illegal. Did you pay for the music? No. Did you copy it from another's music collection? Yes. Illegal. And I quote:
I admit it. I'm an MP3 whore and I love sloppy seconds when it comes to getting free music. Maybe I'm still stuck in mix tape-land, but I will never get over sharing music. This is why every time I go to someone's house I quickly ask if I can take music off their iTunes. Recently my iPod broke and I had to restore is, so of course I was stuck with the four albums I actually own
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you and you only were referring to the four CDs that you own, and that you are only uploading music from friends' computers that you previously owned, in which case, I doubt one could make a moral case against your actions.
But somehow I don't think that is the case. What you describe as "sharing music," most rational people would call "stealing music." You didn't buy it, you are making an illegal copy for your personal use. It was illegal when people were making mixtapes (though the labels didn't care, because the volume was relatively low), and it's illegal now, particularly when you are lifting thousands of tracks at a time.
I hope that makes it painfully obvious.
Changing the headline isn't exactly sufficient admission that you were wrong.
It can't be illegal to share if you don't sell the music!
Crimedog...
It is sufficient admission. But if you need to hear more about my feelings, you can check out my post Happy Holidays, Now Stop Sharing
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