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Originally Posted by LiquidAcid
Then you're wrongly informed. If you sell an album, then you're bound to destroy all copies you've made of the album.
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Indeed, at least in the US. I can't believe people think that "you payed for it" means it's yours forever. If you sell something, you transfer ownership of it. If you keep a copy, there's 0% difference between that and simply downloading a copy without paying for it.
After all, especially with VGM discs, one could easily get more money on the disc. Pay $30, make a copy, get $40 AND be able to still enjoy it? How could anyone concievably say it's not a big deal but bitch that someone get a copy for free where no money exhanged hands at all?
Look at it this way -- let's say 5000 copies of a CD are printed (JUST AN EXAMBLE, not meant to resemble any actual number), and then it goes OOP. This means, there are theoretically at most 5000 people who should be allowed to be able to listen to the disc at any one time. If 100 of those make a copy and sell the disc, acording to the logic displayed above there's 5100 people who have the right to listen to it.
Now I ask, how is this ok when it's not ok for 200 people to just DL a copy for free?