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big_greg 7-23-2019
@onhwy61 What is this "legal issue" you mentioned? I think you may have gotten some bad information.

The copyright-related legal issue Onhwy61 correctly referred to, that may and arguably will come into play if CDs are copied to a hard drive or other storage medium and then are given away (for example to a library), was discussed (and debated) in a lengthy series of posts in the following thread, beginning with a post dated 6-12-2016 by member "lp2cd."

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/redbook-keeps-surprising

As the saying goes, let your conscience be your guide.

Regards,
-- Al

It is always necessary to backup the hard drive which is prone to failure.

I know many people who lost the photos stored in hard drive.

It took 100 hours to rip around 1000 CDs and I still have 1K more CDs to rip .

Thus it will be good idea to back it up.

I also plan to keep my CDs even if I finish ripping all of them.

@almarg He said "dispose of", which to me means throwing away. 

If you make a copy of a CD and give that copy away, it is most certainly copyright infringement. 

I'm not an attorney, nor do I play one on the internet.  I'm not sure what the law says about donating the original to a library for example, however they are sure to be up to snuff on what they can and cannot accept. 

Here's a good resource for general information regarding copyright as it pertains to recorded music (as well as other copyrighted material - photos, books, etc.):   https://www.riaa.com/resources-learning/about-piracy/

Thanks so much all .  Looks like Bluesound might be my best move .Since 90% of my CD's are Classical nobody would take then and when you're over 80 you don't worry about backup, if it goes it goes .

Salvation Army would take them , most charity shops would.

But I along with Greg interpreted your initial post as just wanting to get rid of them due to space.

So as a huge former Bluesound Vault 2 user I would have suggested that in an instant.

But that still raises an interesting question.

If your concern was truly space then once you have ripped them, well then what are you going to do with them?

Or do you have space in the loft to box up and let them gather dust like approx 90% of mine are now doing?