I Found It!!!!!

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

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.

[Bonny]

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.

in germany it is not, if you ned to use a additional program to overtake the copy protection.

[Redigo]

I hate to say it, but that's no longer true. Thanks to some new legislation in the late 90s, including the famous DMCA, breaking copyright protection even for perfectly valid reasons is a crime.

Of course, that's not to say you'd ever, ever get busted for it. So if you've got a valid CD but don't want the hassle of searching for it every time you'd like to play, go ahead. I do.

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.

[Moros]

How can you brake the copywrite law if you already bought it? Are you sure that you can't make back ups for yourself? Seems rather strange to me, but if it is like you say, then better forget what I said.

[Redigo]

No no no, I'm not trying to make anybody paranoid. I was just pointing out a relatively new American law that makes circumventing copy protection methods a crime. The law elsewhere may be (and probably is) very different, and it's not a big deal in any case.

Sorry if I upset anybody unnecessarily.