# It's ILLEGAL to rip music to a PC, even if its not shared.

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**Created:** [December 31, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/its-illegal-to-rip-music-to-a-pc-even-if-its-not-shared/41016 "2007-12-31T08:35:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![soopa7fly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@soopa7fly](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/soopa7fly)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/its-illegal-to-rip-music-to-a-pc-even-if-its-not-shared/41016/16 "2007-12-31T09:23:54Z")

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the problem with VCR’s is that recording from TV is time shifting. i dont think they could justify ripping a CD as time shifting but im sure they will figure out a way to squeeze it into fair use.

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