Posted by Joel on 02/18/07 22:27

"Larry" <larry.grant.dc@gmail.com> wrote:

>Would it be legal for me to take a standard FM radio, tuned to my
>favorite classic rock station, connect it to my computer (from the
>headphone jack on the radio to the mic jack on my sound card) and let
>it dump into WAV format onto my large capacity hard drive all day,
>then come home and manually edit the WAV files into individual songs,
>encode them into MP3, and add the tags? Would I be able to prove
>that the MP3s were not downloaded?


It is legal, and you would never need to prove where they came from.
The only problem would come, as with any other source of copyrighted
music, if you shared it with others.

--
Joel Crump

I'm omnipresent, and omnisexual.

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