Quote Originally Posted by Moros
If you have the CD, it's legal to make copies of it or to use images or other no-CD stuff. If you don't own the CD it is obviously not, of course you can't spread them to people with no CD's.

EDit: I'll shut up now.
Correct...
Copyright laws (in the USA) are generally that you can copy something that you purchased, for your own use only.
Storing For Backup = OK
Letting Friend Use = Bad
Selling or Profit = Really really Bad

This whole deal was first decided on when VCRs were first made (even TV channels were mad as VCRs).
This is also how people who make burning and ripping software can be a legitamate business.