Comment Good and bad... (Score 1) 171
This can be viewed two ways: one, a major international organization is making a step in a productive manner that could, hopefully, get other countries to move in that direction, and two, they made a law to charge you for something that was already free. To my knowledge, it has always been free to rip music from CDs for your personal use, granted that you own the CD as well. There is a whole website devoted to mp3s that promotes a product, MusicMatch, that is available at www.download.com.
