Audacity

[Momentum]

Texas law.

Is using the program "audacity" to record sounds(preferably music) legal?

 

[The Occultist]

Are you recording your own sounds/music? Or are you, say, putting your stereo up to your computer so the program can record your favorite song off the radio?

What are you doing?

 

[Momentum]

I'm am recording not radio, but just songs i listen to from sites like myspace

 

[FlyingRon]

Almost all the songs you'd record, either from websites or internet radio or off you tube videos, etc... are all technically illegal. The chances of detection (provided you keep the copies to yourself) however are nil compared to other forms of internet piracy.

 

[Momentum]

Would you say what im doing is wrong?

I only plan to use it in my car or ipod.

 

[The Occultist]

Would you say what im doing is wrong?

I only plan to use it in my car or ipod.

The law says you may not make a copy of a work you do not have the rights to. You are not the copyright holder of these songs, so you are not allowed to make a copy. The key word here is COPYright (the right to copy), and you do not have the right, so THAT is what you are doing that is wrong. Doesn't matter where you record it from, you can't make the copy.