With the advent of services like iPodmeister (www.ipodmeister.com), which is a service that will digitize your CDs for you, put them on a new iPod or iPhone and take the CDs as payment, I am wondering is this legal? After reading an article in the Star Tribune about this very thing, I began to think—will the RIAA or worse yet, Lars Ulrich show up at my door if I were to take advantage of this? I am trading the music to get a digitized version of it and they can now sell those same CDs for a profit.
Somewhere there are a group of lawyers yelling at each other because they figure out how to make this not legal.
Who needs Bit Torrent or even illegally burned CDs any more? Just trade in your current buttload of CDs for a new iPod full of all your music. It’s genius.
Should the Captain do this? Should the Captain tempt fate and trade in all his ABBA CDs?
I hope ABBA doesn’t show up at my door to beat the crap out of me. That might be worse than Lars.
