The idea of requiring compensation for copying a purchased CD to a writable CD* is utterly at odds with the assertion that when one buys a music CD (etc . . .) one is actually buying a license to consume that content.
Either I am paying for the artistic work or not - end of story.
I understand that the quality of the recording of the work is relevant and buying a VHS copy of a movie does not and should not automatically grant me a right to watch the Blu-Ray version, not least because it is likely remastered, which requires extra work that should be compensated (paid for).
But that's not relevant to this issue at all because the process of transferring the work from one media to another does not increase the quality of the work itself. Ripping a CD as a 24/192 FLAC just gives me a 16/44 track in a bigger size - I don't magically get access to the recorded work as it would sound if the file was created from the original analog masters at 24/192.
* - Or a CD to a cassette or a DVD to another DVD or to a hard drive, etc . . .
Biting the hand that feeds IT
