All my music are ripped from CD's.
WAVE rips are about 700mb per album and alac rips are about 400mb. I have 500GB of music.

New and I buy them from Amazon

Rock Corner has not a very good selection of non mainstream albums. And its just not as good as HMV in UK or any online store.

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Added on September 3, 2012, 3:01 amno idea about that man.. But i wouldn't share my music.

This post has been edited by joshuachew: Sep 3 2012, 03:02 AM

It takes about a week to arrive after it has shipped out. And I have my items shipped back using my company account so I have no idea.

I dont understand this at all. Why would ripping be illegal? And bought it from somewhere else?

I don't know where you are getting your information from but this is a direct pulldown word for word from the RIAA laws. And bear in mind that the RIAA Laws are only applicable in the USA and Malaysian Laws are so laxed its almost nonexistent.

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Unauthorized Copying is Against the Law

Copyright law protects the value of creative work. When you make unauthorized copies of someone’s creative work, you are taking something of value from the owner without his or her permission. Most likely, you’ve seen the FBI warning about unauthorized copying at the beginning of a movie DVD. Though you may not find these messages on all compact discs or music you’ve downloaded from the Internet, the same laws apply. Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, rental or digital transmission of copyrighted sound recordings. (Title 17, United States Code, Sections 501 and 506).

Its only if you copy the Material and distribute it, if you copy it and keep it to yourself for personal use, its alright. By unauthorized copies, it means copies that you distribute to others without permision not copies that you make and keep to yourself.


What the Law Says and What it Means

Making unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings is against the law and may subject you to civil and criminal liability. A civil law suit could hold you responsible for thousands of dollars in damages. Criminal charges may leave you with a felony record, accompanied by up to five years of jail time and fines up to $250,000. You may find this surprising. After all, compact discs may be easily be copied multiple times with inexpensive CD-R burning technology. Further, when you’re on the Internet, digital information can seem to be as free as air. U.S. copyright law does in fact provide full protection of sound recordings, whether they exist in the form of physical CD’s or digital files. Regardless of the format at issue, the same basic principal applies: music sound recordings may not be copied or distributed without the permission of the owner.


Even digital files are protected even if you buy them from HD Tracks.


What the Courts Have to Say

A long series of court rulings has made it very clear that it’s against the law both to upload and download copyrighted music without permission. It doesn’t matter whether you’re dealing with sound recordings, pictures, software or written text. The courts have consistently ruled that many peer-to-peer (P2P) programs and other unauthorized uploading and downloading inherently amount to copyright infringement and therefore constitute a crime.

Common Examples of Online Copyright Infringement:

You make an MP3 copy of a song because the CD you bought expressly permits you to do so. But then you put your MP3 copy on the Internet, using a file-sharing network, so that millions of other people can download it.
Even if you don’t illegally offer recordings to others, you join a file-sharing network and download unauthorized copies of all the copyrighted music you want for free from the computers of other network members.
In order to gain access to copyrighted music on the computers of other network members, you pay a fee to join a file-sharing network that isn’t authorized to distribute or make copies of copyrighted music. Then you download unauthorized copies of all the music you want.
You transfer copyrighted music using an instant messenging service.
You have a computer with a CD burner, which you use to burn copies of music you have downloaded onto writable CDs for all of your friends.
Somebody you don’t even know e-mails you a copy of a copyrighted song and then you turn around and e-mail copies to all of your friends.

Its not copyright if you keep your rips to yourself, the same owner who owns the CD's that you bought.

This post has been edited by joshuachew: Sep 3 2012, 03:35 PM