The recording industry has failed miserably in its attempts to define what is – and is not – considered “fair use” in this increasingly virtualized age of content acquisition and consumption.
In many cases, they’re using legislation that’s decades old to try to go after regular folks who just want to listen to stuff they’ve legitimately acquired. As always, technology races ahead of society’s ability to manage it. Unfortunately, we all get caught in the middle.
Your music management is far more sophisticated than mine. I archive all my material carefully on an external hard drive and backup CDs and DVDs, but my iTunes management is, frankly, almost non-existent. I seriously despise that software!
Not sure what Tanya thinks of it, though. I should ask her 🙂