Or what if I’m just totally done with the songs I’ve downloaded and paid for, like MP3s I bought from iTunes or Amazon? Can I resell those? Like, is there a used MP3 marketplace somewhere? No, a judge has ruled that’s illegal, too. So, if I loan out an MP3, I’m only gonna loan out a copy of that which now means I’m making copies and giving them out. I learned my lesson from that scratched CD I’m backing up all my music in multiple places so that I don’t lose it. Do I have the right to let my friends borrow it just like I did with CDs? I think if they actually take my ability away to play that MP3 then it is legal, so if I give them a hard drive or that’s the only copy of the MP3 I have and it’s on there, then that’s okay, but no, no, no, there’s no way I’m loaning my only MP3 out to my friend on a hard drive. Or, let’s say I go into iTunes and buy a song in digital form, like an MP3. Apparently I only purchased a license to listen to it myself, but what if that CD got scratched, lost, or broken? I bought the license to listen to it, right? So therefore if it got scratched, I should be able to download it and listen to it because I still have the license, right? Yeah, no, that’s illegal. When I had CDs, for example, I could loan out a CD to my friend and that was legal, but I wasn’t allowed to make a copy of that CD and loan the copies out. JACK: I’m honestly confused on what pirating music actually is.
