Music, Computers and Copyright

When microsoft launched its own music download service recently there was a short period of time when its technical page offered some helpful advice on how you could listen to music you purchased on the Microsoft store on your ipod.What it suggested was simply the reverse of Crashfrog's advice, Burn your MP3/WMA files onto a CD and then import them through itunes into AAC format. Way to workaround the DRM microsoft . This advice was very quickly taken down for some reason.TTFN,WK

But when Percy gets a CD out of the library he is probably paying a fairly nominal fee, I know that my library charges me about 80p for a CD for a week. I hardly think the music business would regard this as having 'paid' for the music.TTFN,WK

Except that libraries must have a specifc defence against such claims otherwise they couldn't even lend out books.