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The days of sitting through 5 Crowded House videos just to finally see Lionel Ritchie “Dancing on the Ceiling†are over thanks to YouTube, which offers us a convenient spot to search and watch practically any video on demand. Now, the next step in our sneaky music evolution is finding a way to convert those videos to CD’s…preferably cheap. Many software programs offer ways to record any audio coming out of our computer speakers into .mp3 format and although their intentions are true, those programs unknowingly offer us easy access to become music pirates. You can download a program like “Audacity†and have it open in one program while “Lady†plays in the other. By hitting “record†in the music software, you can tape the slithery sounds coming out of Lionel’s mouth and with some cleanup, form it into an audio file that’s ready to be transferred to a CD and you only spent time, not the $.99 iTunes charges for such superhits. Now, the gray area rears its ugly head and you might question the whole “legality†of what you just did. Most of the well-known songs and videos on YouTube are protected by copyrights and unless Mr.Ritchie was sipping wine in your living room and told you to “just go for itâ€, the odds are you’ve probably broken the law. You don’t get a ticket as long as somebody doesn’t catch you running a stop sign and you probably won’t get in any trouble for just enjoying your tunes on an afternoon jog. To protect yourself though, you should probably resist the urge to purchase infomercial time slots to advertise “Lionel Ritchie Mix Tapes†for pennies on the dollar as that could raise some eyebrows.
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