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Old 04-08-2009, 06:32 PM
Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by Sven View Post
I would think then that he would have had to supply the original CDs as well as the 'rips' on the device.
Yeah, exactly. The physical CDs would have to go with the gift for this to be on the up-and-up. This isn't hard to figure out at all: treat digital media files like they're physical objects and copyright makes sense.

If you give someone an iPod loaded up with tracks, you shouldn't keep a copy of those tracks on your computer - they belong on the iPod and they belond to that person now. Although doesn't Apple assume everyone is a thief and nuke iPods on first sync when creating a partnership? I tried to load up an iPod I gave my dad years ago with music from his own CD collection, and when he did the first sync it nuked all the music on it. That sucked.
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