Thursday, February 16, 2006
RIAA says ripping of CD's illegal
The RIAA recently testified in front of the US Supreme Court during the Grokster Case. During the case RIAA said that ripping music(importing music from YOUR CD's to YOUR computer) was "perfectly lawful." Now it seems they have changed their tune and have taken the stance that ripping music to your computer and then to your MP3 player is illegal. That'll come as a shock to the millions of MP3 player owner that currently do this and for the most part do it with music they buy themselves. It seems like the RIAA will do whatever it takes to make even more money for the gigantic music labels at the cost of us the consumer. Most of us have converted to using legitimate music download services such as iTunes. I will admit that I will use limewire or such to download a rare track that I just can't get on iTunes. But that's a very rare occurance for the most part. I really doubt this is anything more than the RIAA putting this word out there in plans of doing something else. Kind of like when the FBI charges someone with 30 charges in order to get them to plea down to the 5 charges they wanted to charge them with in the first place. It just seems that when you buy something like a CD, you have the right to make backups of it if you want, and that includes putting it on a computer, MP3 player or another CD as long as it stays in your possession and not someone elses.
