RIAA goes after personal use

[RA1D]

In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

washingtonpost.com

[MantaBase]

This link works (I think)

washingtonpost.com

[Jokerswild]

Well obviously the courts need to lock up all the people in the U.S. that have copied their CD's to their computers. This will help the overcrowded courts and over populated prison system.

[halutzparilla]

who in world, your trying to be good buying a copy legally of your music then backing it up in your PC be a infringements of copyright law?

hey if they are making this an issue, why not arrest every person that use internet and uses file sharing programs such as Torrents, Limewire, and etc.

they need major revision of law and copyright constitutional entries...

[One4yu2c]

There was a bit more to the original story than what the Washington Post is reporting. Apparently, the RIAA's beef might not be with the act of ripping the songs, but putting them into a shared folder afterwards. However, they worded their brief very poorly. Read more:

DailyTech - RIAA: CD Ripping is "Unauthorized Use"
Recording Industry vs. The People

[halutzparilla]

okie so ripping is vaguely legal, but putting it on a shared folder is unauthorized.
Is unauthorized copy equate to illegal copy?

putting it in shared folder but not sharing it to the p2p file sharing program makes it legal?

sooner or later this will stir up something bigger than Recording Company vs. People who is literate enough to use computer and want a saved copy of their legal music.

common people if people want to save copy for personal/private use shouldnt it be fine?

[Jokerswild]

I just read that there's a college thats going to use their law students to defend any students the RIAA goes after and that the professors are helping prepare the cases. Also that besides the advantage of free legal for the students it gives the law students a chance to go to a real court and practice. Just in case you think it's crazy to have law students doing it a professor that looked over their work said it was amazingly well done. Enough schools doing this just might slow the RIAA down as far as suits against students or at the least take a bunch of them to trial.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14477

[halutzparilla]

ei thanks joker that was a very interesting link...

[Zambini]

are you f**king kidding me?




after reading this thing through, I just had to LOL at this.

The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only "created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies," Beckerman says. "Every problem they're trying to solve is worse now than when they started."

[screwballl]

I read that a few days ago and just think they are taking it too far.. we need specific laws or scrap the vague ones and ensure fair use is truly FAIR