<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px">I'd say that 'keep the original' is the main issue here. If you delete the bought digital items from your computer I'd say it's all perfectly legal. If you supply a backup CD with the gift, that's legal too, as the items are transferred to the new owner (who can legally make a backup copy for him/herself).<BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px">Technically you're still the buyer of the songs of course, but I see no problem there. That's what happens when you give something to someone else (just like giving a regular CD).</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px">Ton</P><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px"></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">Yes. A “backup” of the CD is for your personal use, not for <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">gifting. Ripped</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">songs are for your own use, not for gifting on an iPod. Do people <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">do it</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">anyway? Of course. Is it legal? No.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">Have any of you ever read the "Fair Use" clause of the Copyright <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">Act, or are you just repeating what you here in the media?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">I'd love to hear your explanation of how giving someone a copy of a <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">CD when you keep the original is "Fair Use" and not stealing. (By the <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">way, I hate the RIAA and recording industry as much as the next guy, <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">but I don't condone stealing.)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>