"Carl Valle" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Carl Valle" wrote in message
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I do know what I am talking about. Please quote the copyright law
that allows making computer copies of copyright protected
materials. Or cite the precedent you seem to think allows such
activity.

That would be a negative hypothesis, that there is no law against
using a PC to make backup copies of CDs you own, for your own use.

Carl, you've made the claim that is illegal. That means that there
is a published law someplace that prohibits this. That's a positive
hypothesis. I leave it to you to prove your own positive hypothesis
with actual quotes from specific laws.


Okay
for starters here is the piece of the original CFR


Copyright Law of the United States of America
and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code

§ 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works36
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under
this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the
following:

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to
the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental,
lease, or lending;

(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic
works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works,
to perform the copyrighted work publicly;

(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic
works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works,
including the individual images of a motion picture or other
audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and

(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work
publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

That's all fine and good Carl, but it doesn't justify your claim that
copying with a stand-alone CD player is legal, but doing essentially the
same thing with a PC is always illegal. The logical conclusion based on
these items is that all copying is illegal.