I think the suggestion is that if they leave the content available, they can still write it off.

Realllly not sure how what I wrote was hatred or redditworthy, I must be missing some unwritten code. Maybe it’s a communism vs anarchism thing?

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I think you are referring to rules in the USA. In Canada, we have ‘fair dealing’ laws that would allow you to rip your CD and sell it. In part, this is already funded by a levy on blank CDs here.