I was assuming that that you own the CD, because the other scenario (while maybe legal) sounds like a strange situation to me which forcefully tries to get around the law.

At least I'd consider it weird that a friend would borrow my Empeg just to give it back to me to make a backup of its contents. :) All I want is a private copy of its contents (and since I own the contents anyway .... but that's a different story :) )

Till