You can legally make a copy on your PC if you want – it’s the circumvention of the decoding technology that’s illegal, whether a copy is made, or not. This has been encoded in fair use laws and upheld for years, and nothing the **AA, or for that matter the DMCA, says changes that. They merely latch onto the flimsy holds that things like the DMCA (don’t be the DVD Jons of the world, basically) and hunting down downloaders (who are being strongarmed, regardless of the facts of their cases) gives them. As a general rule, people who make digital copies for thier own personal use are not being prosecuted, and people who have copies of the CDs already, aren’t downloading thier songs, they’re encoding them from thier media, unmolested. The **AA would love to spread the meme, tho, that merely making that copy for your use on a PC is going LAND U IN TEH JAIL! It’s false.

The DMCA. To make a really silly analogy, it’s like if someone put a speedbump behind your driveway, and told you you weren’t allowed out on the road unless you got a new car every year a new model is made. Big deal, speedbumps can be backed over. So you do, in your old beater, ’cause you’re damn well not buying a new car to use the roads everytime you go to the grocery store. your rear wheel clear the bump. Then, three foot long spikes IMPALE YOU IN YOUR SEAT, for daring to defy the speedbump! BTW, it also impales little babies in their carriages on the sidewalk if they come too close.

That’s what the DMCA is like. Please, won’t someone thing of the poor roads!