I've got a fella here who wants some old LPs transfered to cd. He asked me to find him a machine that he could buy that would help him copy his lp from his player to a computer to burn to cd.
This fella knows absolutely nothing about computers or the internet, so i told him that it would be easier just to buy the cd online, or just the songs he wanted from the lp from an online mp3 vendor. He was very excited and asked me to do it for him. Not like go to his house and help him, he wanted ME to buy the music and sell it to him. On a cd.
So i got to thinking.... whats the legality here? If i buy a cd, from bestbuy, and take it to him and he pays me back, i KNOW that is perfectly legal. However, the riaa being the greedy bastards that they are, have mangled the laws up so bad that i have to ask....
If i was to buy online from say ITUNES, the music that he wanted, converted it to MP3 because i hate apple and would never leave it in their proprietary bullsh1t format, burnt it to a cd and sold hit to him, with a reciept, and deleted it off my computer, would there be any earthshaking laws broken?? Also, if for some strange reason he was ever questioned as to the legality of the mp3, because he doesnt have a hard copy (other than the cd i burnt) would my reciept protect him?
This fella knows absolutely nothing about computers or the internet, so i told him that it would be easier just to buy the cd online, or just the songs he wanted from the lp from an online mp3 vendor. He was very excited and asked me to do it for him. Not like go to his house and help him, he wanted ME to buy the music and sell it to him. On a cd.
So i got to thinking.... whats the legality here? If i buy a cd, from bestbuy, and take it to him and he pays me back, i KNOW that is perfectly legal. However, the riaa being the greedy bastards that they are, have mangled the laws up so bad that i have to ask....
If i was to buy online from say ITUNES, the music that he wanted, converted it to MP3 because i hate apple and would never leave it in their proprietary bullsh1t format, burnt it to a cd and sold hit to him, with a reciept, and deleted it off my computer, would there be any earthshaking laws broken?? Also, if for some strange reason he was ever questioned as to the legality of the mp3, because he doesnt have a hard copy (other than the cd i burnt) would my reciept protect him?