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I don't remember where Jay heard it, but I thought as a CD owner, we were each entitled to one "backup" copy of the music that we legally purchased for our own personal listening. That's the theory we have followed for ripping our cds to mp3s for use on the computer. I should feel bad that the music industry feels it has to take this action, but they've been so money greedy for years, I feel no sympathy for them at all. As it is, they're trying to press the public into spending ungodly amounts of money for what they consider to be music as is.

As a tangent, I have no problem spending $20 for a classical music CD, wherein I know all the movements of a piece. I DO have a problem spending $20 for an album by an artist I like if I don't know all the songs, or at least a good majority of them. I have found that iTunes is a godsend in this regards, because I can buy a single by an artist, and not pay for the crap I don't want. The music industry can bitch all it wants about iTunes, but at least their philosophy of "buy what you want, and not the parts you don't" works for me. :)