Here in Sweden that is absolutely 100% legal, it is called privatkopiering, private copying, we even pay a fee on storage media and phones to compensate for the potential loss of revenue that an artist may suffer from us doing it.
You may even share the copy within your family, but no further.
In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That’s why it’s ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can’t rip DVDs to your computer.
That absolutely depends on local laws.
Here in Sweden that is absolutely 100% legal, it is called privatkopiering, private copying, we even pay a fee on storage media and phones to compensate for the potential loss of revenue that an artist may suffer from us doing it.
You may even share the copy within your family, but no further.
In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That’s why it’s ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can’t rip DVDs to your computer.