As an audio buff I absolutely refuse to “download MP3, WMA etc” files from the internet. I will always purchase the music of my choice on CD/SACD and “listen to it in all it glory” through my sound system. I, like the rest of the world who have embraced the technology, will convert my music to a digital form so I can listen to it on my protable player which pumping the music into my ears and no-one elses.
Copyright is a debateable and depending where you live in the world, exists, does not exist or is just totally ignored.
In Australia, you do not purchase the right to use the music as you see fit. If you purchase a CD, you purchase the piece of plastic and the limited right to listen to the music in private. You may not decompile it , re transmit it in any electronic form and you can not broadcast it or let it be heard in public.
Therefore if you play your legally purchased CD in your car’s CD player at a volume that the general public can hear, then you are in breach of copyright.
Where does stupidity end a common sence take place?? Where does one really over step the mark?
Why not levy the CD’s to allow for download to a computer or MP3 player. Hell the instituations and the man stick it to us for everything else. Bank charges, bank levies, rain tax, tank tax, dam tax, food tax, clothing tax, drinking tak, smoking tax, eating tax, fuel tax, import duty tax, stamp duty tax, payroll tax, pay as you earn tax, hard surface tax, fire levy tax, green tax, rescue sevices tax, road tax, methane tax. etc., etc., etc. Soon we’ll have to pay to breathe.