A small change to the UK's copyright laws has finally made it legal for Brits to do what they've most likely been doing for a decade — copying a CD to MP3 format. As ridiculous as it sounds, until ...

In the confusion following the Washington Post's RIAA story, and its subsequent "correction," journalists and advocacy groups alike are missing an important fact: the RIAA has repeatedly taken the ...

I can put up with the guilt no longer. I confess; I rip CDs. I put them in the CD drive, and use freely available, totally legal software to convert the tracks to MP3 format. Then even worse I ...

I've used EAC to do this. Instead of ripping individual tracks, tell it you want to "Copy Image & CUE Sheet." That will make a single WAV file of the entire CD, then you can convert to MP3 from that.

Fearful of consumer backlash, major record labels in the United States have slowed controversial plans for making CDs more difficult to copy, even as tension over online music piracy mounts. Last year ...

Amazon launched a new service that will start offering a free MP3 album of any CD you buy from them. Better still, you'll get versions of any album you've purchased in the last 15 years. The service ...