Dec
30
The war of the media
Say a little prayer…
RIAA suing citizen for copying legally purchased CDs to PC
Sure, we’ve heard RIAA-admiring lawyers affirm that ripping your own CDs is in fact “stealing,” but it seems the aforementioned entity is putting its money where its mouth is in a case against Jeffrey Howell. Reportedly, the Scottsdale, Arizona resident is being sued by the RIAA, and rather than Mr. Howell just writing a check and calling it a day, he’s fighting back in court. Interestingly, it seems that the industry is maintaining that “it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into their computer.” Ira Schwartz, the industry’s lawyer in the case, is arguing that MP3 files created on his computer from legally purchased CDs are indeed “unauthorized copies,” and while we’ve no idea what will become of all this, we suppose you should go on and wipe those personal copies before you too end up in handcuffs.
- Engadget
Retardedness at its best. If this happens in Singapore and RIAA has its way, everyone with a mp3 player standalone, or on the pc, or in the cell would be guilty of this. Hmm, good stakes here. At least a 1/3 of the population. So if everyone is advised to deleted their copies, life is so not gonna be the same again. Limiting oneself to listening on CDs that, gets scratched easily, carrying loads of cds in a cd wallet. I have done that. It’s heavy! It’s backward progression.
Once again, retardedness.
