I have this cd player that was made in the USA by escient, inside it has a hard drive, and you can burn your original cd, onto the hard drive, and play it without having to put the cd in it, in the UK this infringes on copyright, and you can be fined or imprisoned for it, yet they still sold this machine in the UK, it also has the capability to burn the songs onto another disc, so you can preserve the original in new condition, this is also against the law, figure that one out.
If that was the standard, content producers could sell box sets, at a much higher markup, knowing that people would always rip them before playing. They'd know that friends would rip other friend's CDs. And sometimes those friends would buy the media when they lose their entire albums due to damaged players, et c. It would be glorious.
It is glorious, I bought this one second hand, and it was full of Pink Floyd & roger waters albums, plus hundreds more, 180gb worth, I also moved from the UK to Poland & Poland has no such draconian laws as the UK, happy days here my friend. (edited) Wow, I earned more for 1 comment to you, than I have on any single post I have made to date, Thank you.