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Are CD duplicators legal if the CD is for your own personal use?

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if the CD duplicators are used at home with your own computer and with media content which you own then it is perfectly legal and considered as a back up. however if you were to copy cds for friends or for sale you would need copyright permission or else it is illegal.

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