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Legal or not?
The issue of legality will be on many people's mind. What is allowed and what is not? A very
complex issue with fuel for more than just discussion.
There is a , possibly, quite legitimate objection from the music industry against the use of this
technology: The Internet is being used to distribute copyright-protected art forms (music in
this case).
This cannot be questioned, as, given enough time, you can find loads of information on the
Internet, which really doesn't belong there. At this point, we would like to ask you to handle
this issue responsibly, because it is not only the industry, which can be damaged from the
Internet, but also the artists themselves, espe-cially those ones, who have no alternative of
marketing their product.
The private use of this technology with legally purchased material, has not been a problem so
far – enough for us to develop and supply machines, which make the most of this new me-
dium. So how do you use your player so that no one goes empty-handed? The best way, of
course, is to have direct access to your vast amount of music on a HD. Therefore, you need to
have purchased the music legally, usually on CD. You can save these CDs to HD, convert them
to .MP3 files and use them in your m3po player – as you have always done with conventional
CDs. In the private sphere no problem like mentioned (whereby up till now no-one has com-
plained about any rockin' grill parties with the neighbors;-). At this point, we would like to
draw a comparison with copying to tape (for your car stereo), or minidisk – everything OK.
However, it is generally not allowed to copy complete CDs for public (non-private) use.
In connection with this, the Internet should not be branded a nest of illegal activities. The web
is already the information source No. 1 and as a result, your first point of contact for purchas-
ing .MP3 software, or simply for learning more about the .MP3 format. Also, more and more
record labels appear in the web and offer hundreds of thousands of songs form newcomers,
as well as more established artists like: Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, David Bowie, Beastie
Boys, Billy Idol, Peter Townshend, Dionne Warwick, George Clinton, den Toten Hosen - the list
will most certainly be completely expanded within a short time.
The 50 MP3 titles on the M3PO go CD come, by the way, from such an online label – BeSonic.
If you want to know more about BeSonic click on the corresponding button in the autostarter
menu of the M3PO go CD.
This is just the beginning of a really big movement, that for up to a couple of years ago was
powered primarily by artists (and few of these prophesied what has come) and is now taking
its course ever further.