No but some would say you should delete all of the backups.
For awhile I was chasing around very expensive versions of CD's, DVD-A's etc. and then discovered I could get them all for free on the dark side of the internet and I downloaded a lot of these "special" versions rationalizing that I would never buy them anyway at the crazy high prices and I had all ready bought other versions previously so downloading them was OK. I then came to the perspective that this was indeed stealing and I deleted all the files and back-ups. I do miss some of these but for me it was the right thing to do. YMMV.
I went through this on another thread but...
I've been very strict for many years regarding "getting stuff for free" and pirating. Being part of the film industry, my income seems to have suffered from the effects of piracy. And I have been a musician and know many struggling musicians, hence I'm very sensitive to taking money out of people's pocket.
Along those lines, when Napster and then the rest of the swapping MP3s phenomenon happened, I never did it because I viewed it as a form of stealing.
I was offered hard drives full of music from friends/acquaintances and refused.
Likewise when it seems like everyone I knew was torrenting music and movies (before streaming especially). Even people I knew in the industry! Again, I couldn't do it. I would pay for anything I watched or listened to. Friends learned not to bring up watching movies for free that way, knowing how I felt about it.
Likewise I have resisted illegally sharing or acquiring sound effects libraries, sound editing software, plug-ins etc. I pay for everything.
And when everyone and their brother seems to be using VPNs to access stuff they can't get here....I also refuse to engage in that.
After ripping lots of my CD collection I held on to the CDs for 15 years, but I truly began running out of room for storage. I finally relented and got rid of a bunch of them - sold a few, dropped a lot to Goodwill. I still have a big box left in storage. I looked in to the issue on-line and it seemed to still be something of a gray area. But even if it's not, and strictly speaking it's not kosher, I've cut myself a break in getting rid of some of my CDs. I've done a lot of time in the Virtue Circle, I'm still sticking to my guns regarding all the above. But I'm not gonna reach perfection.
I have no doubt that some of the stuff I've watched on youtube - e.g. all sorts of clips/content/maybe old movies/music videos/music, whatever - would have been posted without the rights. I have no idea what or when, but that is always some likelihood on youtube. I'd suspect most here have likely viewed stuff on youtube or elsewhere that was a rights violation even if they didn't know it.
One could say well it's up to youtube to police that or the people posting to get the rights. But let's face it, if one wants to be perfectly virtuous and avoid the possibility of seeing anything for which the rightful owner should receive money, then one could completely avoid going on youtube. I'm not about to stop using youtube and I doubt many here are either. Life's messy.
So is getting rid of some of my ripped CDs 100% consistent with my long standing objection to paying artists for their work? (Well...I did pay for every CD). Perhaps not strictly speaking. Then, ok, I'm human and not perfect. I can live with that. If I've slipped a bit after many years, I'll still keep doing the best I can for the most part.