I think this boils down to the fact that no matter what the law says, people effectively do what the general consensus agree with.
Ripping and iPod syncing is illegal in many places... but it is ignored because it is so widespread and socially accepted. Ultimately, this means the law is irrelevant - it's always a delicate balancing act between legality and the support of the people (and if the law doesn't have the latter, is it ignored, the law loses respect, and cannot be enforced)
It actually reminds me of [the failure of] prohibition in a way - you can't stop something that's already widespread. It's the exact same problem the digital music industry are facing. Because a lot of the restrictions breach the "common sense" of most people / what they expect they should be able to do with their purchase.
And, once again, the consumer votes with their wallet. If you're not giving someone the rights that they expect from their legal purchase (ripping is probably a good example) then they just won't bother purchasing. Because either way they've "done wrong" in the eyes of law. The music industry need to wake up and smell the coffee in my opinion.
Quote: "If you buy a Blu-Ray movie you don't have the right to rip it into DVD format or VCD format either. Or to AVI. Technically, again, that's not legal."
In that way, I think there's no reason why ripping the soundtrack is bad. Because think about it - millions upon millions of people rip or upload movie segments all the time (either to ipods, youtube etc. etc.)
Since that in itself is "legally dubious", there is absolutely no difference between that and using the soundtrack in the same way. They're both "wrong", but for some reason the former is largely ignored
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