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There was no point selling them- we gave them to charity.
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It's clearly not naughty on the same scale as murder, but ripping an entire collection and then selling it is, to my mind, obviously morally dodgy.
Say you own a CD, rip it and then lose the CD but coincidently have a Spotify subscription that allows you to play the CD, or even download it to your device.
The reality is no one really gives a damn about ripped CD's anymore*- it stopped being a thing once the labels agreed with streaming services about pricing.
* Except here in Singapore.
Here you can and will be fined if you bring in bootleg CD's or DVD's.
When we moved here I had to document every CD and DVD we owned.
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Most of the convert DVDs I have, I bought in the early to mid 00s, and since then there are so many live concerts on YouTube, that it would be one and the same if I didn't have them.
CDs.... Initially, I might keep the best of the collection, and get rid of the dodgy ones (such as Megadeth "Risk" and Van Halen "Balance"), but in time might get rid of the whole lot.
Though I have some Swervedriver ones I had to track down on ebay over the years so will probably keep the likes of those.
I'm too long in the tooth to buy downloads, it just feels a bit 'hollow'. I bought a couple of albums and they were so good that I ended up paying again for a CD copy. Same with Books. I love books, I just can't do the Kindle/iPad thing.
I just prefer to keep the CDs - I like having a physical thing that I actually own, even if I rarely use it. The audio quality on a good system really is slightly higher too, even compared to fairly high-rate mp3 - I actually save hard drive (and especially iPod) space by ripping at purposely lower rate, knowing that I have the CD if I want to listen properly.
I’m actually in the middle of re-ripping the whole lot to AAC, replacing many earlier-generation mp3 encodes - it’s a lot of work, but the quality improvement is noticeable. I wouldn’t have been able to if I hadn’t kept the CDs.
There’s also usually some nice artwork and interesting information in the CD booklet. You might not look at it much, but it’s often a lot more than you can find online.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Anyone use Power ISO to transfer dvds? It's about $29 to buy so might be worth a punt in order to put all dvds on digital.
Also, if you subscribe to iTunes Match, Apple basically issues you with a "legal" copy of everything it also has in the iTMS and keeps it in the cloud. Obscure stuff that it doesn't have gets uploaded. It's worth the money, IMO.
I wont sell my CD's though, I like having the physical copies and just seeing an album I haven't listened to in a while often makes me re-visit it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12021607/Why-in-2015-is-ripping-CDs-still-illegal-in-the-UK.html
I agree that ripping and then selling or giving away the original is wrong and should remain illegal - since it's really no different from ripping or downloading a copy from someone else, even if they paid for it originally - but I think making it illegal to listen to your own legally-purchased music in different formats is wrong, and stupid. It's impossible to police, and in any case you can't really listen to more than one copy at the same time - it's purely for convenience.
This still isn't the main reason I keep my CDs, but I think it undermines the legal case for doing so if ripping them *at all* is still illegal, so is a classic case of music industry short-sightedness. Do they really think anyone is going to pay twice for the same music just so they can listen to it somewhere else?
For what it's worth, I will admit to ripping a copy if someone lends me a CD, and to occasionally illegally downloading something I want to try - if I like it, I will eventually get around to buying a legal CD, and if I don't think it's worth buying then I delete it. As a result I spend more on legal music than almost anyone I know - does that make me a bad person?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein