You can copy music CDs onto the hard drive just for listening or for inserting into select games.
It found that 58% of respondents had copied music from a friend's hard drive to their own, and 95% copy music in some way.
But one of the measures proposed by Hargreaves - permitting so-called "format shifting" where users copy music for personal use, could change the outlook for this kind of service.
"Ending the exemptions from age classification for hard copy music videos will be an important step forward in making sure that children are not inadvertently exposed to unsuitable material, " said Mr Bailey.
Digital rights management schemes, such as Apple's FairPlay technology, limit how many times users can copy their music and what devices they can play them on, ostensibly protecting music from piracy.
With the growing popularity of digital media and pay-for-download content, that scenario is made more difficult thanks to digital rights management copy-protection schemes, abbreviated as DRM, that make it nearly impossible to move or copy our music, movies and TV shows to the different devices we use every day.
Amazon MP3 purchases - including music that customers purchased in the past - are automatically saved to Cloud Player, which means that customers have a secure backup copy of the music they buy from Amazon, free of charge.
In late December, Amazon.com added Warner Music Group to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections on Amazon's Amazon MP3 digital music store.
In late December, Amazon.com added Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ) to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections on Amazon's Amazon MP3 digital music store.
Obviously, we do not have the right to copy books, movies and music and sell them.
The N230 also allows you to quickly copy files, images, music or share information with other PCs, based on a WiFi ad hoc connection.
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When word leaked out about a week ago that Sony was using a copy-protection program to keep people from copying their music CDs, music lovers cried foul and security experts warned the XCP copy protection system could be hijacked by so-called Trojan horse programs.
They'd say we're delighted, and let us know when we can start selling our music through iTunes without copy protection.
Publishers unhappy with Apple's iTunes pricing policies have marginalized the company's ability to offer music free of onerous copy protections known as digital rights management.
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If you have a demo CD of your best tracks then let us have a copy along with a written biography telling us about your music.
But the so-called "Big Five" record labels, which control 85 percent of U.S. record sales, say built-in copy protection is the only way they can safeguard their music from freeloading downloaders.
The copy protection systems have been used in an attempt to limit piracy and stop people getting hold of music via illegal file-sharing.
' And this record's made the rounds of people who write about music and music buffs, and pretty much everybody who was Internet savvy and wanted to get a copy could get a copy.
"The enormous file sizes of modern HD movies, music, and photos continue to push the need for greater storage space and faster file copy speeds, " said Thi La, Senior VP and GM of Memory and Enthusiast Component Products at Corsair.
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