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As always, there are lawsuits in the news about digital media. I was reading one today in which part of the charge is that even ripping your own CDs you've purchased and putting them into the MP3 format is grounds for illegal copying since the original format had been changed. I think it is ludicrous....or Ludacris, depending on your genre.
My argument/question is this: It is legal to take one "illegal", "haji" copy back from Iraq and get through customs. This is according to our own Government Customs Inspectors. So the question becomes what is the statute of liability/limitations for illegal copies and pirated music, movies, etc? It seems to me that if I wanted to, so long as I got my music in Mexico or Canada, I should be good to go....and to take it further, if I downloaded the music from a site that was hosted in India or Japan, I should still be ok.
Bare in mind, I don't collect music from sites or overseas, I just think it is interesting that there are lawsuits out there that don't jive with what our Federal Government allows our military/civilians overseas to practice.
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