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chrisrob | 12:04 Tue 20th Jan 2009 | Law
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Years ago, I used to record "Top of the Pops" from my transistor radio onto my cassette tape recorder - for my own personal use.
Nowadays, because I cannot get broadband where I am and am stuck with a slow dial up connection or even slower mobile "broadband", I cannot listen to Last.fm without frequent stops (and it doesn't pause and buffer like YouTube), so I download (using Firefox + DownloadHelper) and listen to tracks in their entirety later. Is this illegal? If so, what's the difference to the recordings of my teenage years?
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Yes this is illegal, as was taping the programme from your radio. You now have a copy of the songs to keep and listen to without paying the original artist a penny.

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