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But don’t they say bad publicity is good publicity…

So this explains my mothers skepticism towards the internet…

The reference to Apple’s “Rip, Mix and Burn” campaign and cost to fill a iPod with songs bought from iTunes both skirt the interesting issue of whether or not it is legal to rip your purchased CDs to mp3s, to play on your PC, your iPod or to burn to a mix CD.

Apple’s iTunes software allows you to do so, while it doesn’t let you rip DVDs even though iTunes and iPods can play the video they contain . However music industry statements have claimed even CD ripping is illegal so the legal situation seems unclear (and changes depending on your location):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Legality