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Originally Posted by ilef
2) The buyer, as the defacto-new owner of the cd can do whatever he/she likes with it... If he/she feels like selling as soon as digital audio/package lossless copies have been made, the decision's up to him/her. No offence is being actually made, in the words of someone else around here which made me see things under a different light: the albums don't have any actual value, their only purpose is to store audio tracks/other kinds of data+occasional information/artwork in the booklets, therefore no one is actually being offended by that kind of practice, more like wanting to feel offended. We... as people/collectors... are the ones to give albums such things as importance, for various reasons, but that doesn't mean they actually are important. Anyway - The company/label got its money 'cause the album had been originally purchased by someone, the seller got the money wanted/requested for the trade, and the buyer ultimately ended with the album he/she wanted... albeit in a different kind of form. Everyone should be happy in the end.
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It's still piracy, and I'm always boggled by those who claim to be vehemently against piracy yet fully support the practice of making a digital copy and selling the disc, while keeping the copy. It's really NOT any different than just going and DLing a copy by itself, the end result is that someone has a copy which they don't have ownership of the item (as in the case of ripping and selling, they transfered ownership by said process).