Rip and Burn Responsibly

There has been a lot of discussion lately in the media about intellectual property rights, music technology, and music piracy. With the advent of powerful home PCs and the Internet, you have many new ways to enjoy music, along with easier access to and more flexibility with music than ever before.

Cakewalk Pyro 5 represents the best technology available for converting, organizing, editing, and enjoying your music. With Cakewalk Pyro you can: burn music and data CDs; “rip” or convert CDs to MP3, WMA, or WAV format; digitize and clean up the audio from LPs and cassettes; create custom mixes of your favorite music, then burn them onto CD or transfer them to your portable music player; and more.

With so much power at their fingertips, some Cakewalk Pyro customers have asked us what uses of Pyro 5 lie within their legal rights, and what the ethical implications of these uses are.

Examples of what you can do with Pyro 5

There’s no limit to the things you can do with music using Cakewalk Pyro. You are just about free and clear, as long as it’s for your own personal use, and you are using music that you have legally obtained by either purchase or by authorized download. Where you can run into problems is when you distribute music to which you do not have the rights. Here are some examples of things to do with Cakewalk Pyro:

• Rip CDs in your collection and record and digitize your old LPs and cassettes.
• Make mix CDs for your own personal use of your favorite songs from albums you own, or downloaded files that were legally obtained.
• Make audio CDs of the music you have created yourself to distribute to family and friends, or sell to fans.
• Make CDs of your old LPs and cassettes for your personal use.
• Make remixes of your favorite songs for your personal use.
• Use Cakewalk pyro as a jukebox, playing music files from your collection.
• Transfer songs and playlists to your portable music player so you can take the music with you.
• Back up and archive files on your computer by putting them on CD.
• Make one back-up copy of your favorite software or albums.
  

What you should NOT do with Pyro 5

• Copy and distribute commercially available CDs for your friends or customers.
• Make mix CDs of your favorite songs from commercially available artists, and distribute them to your friends or customers.
• Rip commercially available CDs and distribute the files via email or chat services, or make them available by posting them on a website or through a peer-to-peer service.
• Download unauthorized music or other files (cracked software, etc).
  

Where you can get more information

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE) – A group interested in protecting the public's access to and use of audiovisual technologies, while still respecting the rights of copyright holders.

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