Ziggy587 wrote:If you have a Walkman and a 1/8" male-male cable, or any cassette deck with a headphones jack, it would be easy enough to rip the tape yourself. I see Walkmans in drug stores still, less than 10 bucks lol. If you're that concerned about downloading the album, just rip it yourself. It's not hard.
When he said it would be trivial to prove it wasn't "ripped" from the cassette, I believe he was referring to the quality of the files ripped. It would be pretty easy to show it didn't come from the cassette.
Even if the quality was downgraded, there will be very likely differences between the two recordings.
Although this is all pretty moot as the chances of anyone being caught and prosecuted doing this are so extremely, extremely low. Effectively impossible (even though there are other events that are also effectively impossible with even lower probabilities by orders of magnitudes).
Ivo.
I was talking to the OP, not the comment about the CD rip versus the tape rip.
