David Fletcher

UK

Software engineer

Personally, I prefer to just buy a CD.

I hold the opinion that when I buy a music CD, I am not actually buying the round piece of plastic that holds the musical content. What I am buying is a licence to listen to the contents, and from then on I can do what the hell I like with it so long as I don't pass the files on to anybody else.

What I do is use grip to rip the tracks and encode them into Ogg Vorbis rather than mp3. I can then use my usual music player software on my Linux PC at home, or at work I use an Ogg Vorbis plugin for the Windows Media Player, see:-
http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/
or just put the original CD in the HiFi at home.

The important thing is that I am in control of the rights that I have purchased, not Apple Computer, not microsoft, not anybody else, which is exactly the way it should be for all.