“I’ve purchased it in 8 track, LP and CD.
Haven’t I EARNED the right to download a torrent of it to my PC?”
No, you’ve “earned” the right to your 8-track, LP, and CD (what, no reel-to-reel or cassette version?) copies. Which, incidentally, is what you paid for.
Bullshit.
I bought the music (MULTIPLE TIMES mind you), not the format or package.
If greedy “artists” and their front-man attack dog, the RIAA, want to change that basic understanding, they had better be prepared for a HEAVY, adverse response from the marketplace.
Can you tape your record to cassette or mp3 for personal use?
VCRs could tape television programming (including pay movie channels) as ruled by the Supreme Court in their Betamax decision in the 1980s.
Yet now you will find it difficult to get an all in one combination DVR.DVD+/-R machine (and some DVR systems will flush programming that you have recorded after a couple of weeks if a signal is present in the programming to do so).
Nope. The industry wants to be able to switch back and forth between “you bought a specific physical object” and “you bought a batch of data”, depending on which one is convenient at the moment. Unfortunately for them, that’s not how legitimate law works.