“Converting music CDs to audio files on a computer is unapproved and therefore illegal, the Recording Industry Association of America has said in a brief ahead of a crucial Arizona lawsuit. Hoping to support the arguments from group member Atlantic Records in its complaint against the Howell family, the RIAA contends that ripping CDs leads to ‘viral’ copyright infringement,” MacNN reports.
MacDailyNews Note: The RIAA is a trade group that represents the outmoded music cartels who are currently in a desperate and futile search for relevancy as their business undergoes radical and rapid transformation at the hands of Apple Inc.
“The statement partly contradicts the RIAA’s previous stance on the subject. Although the group is careful in the current case to make a separation between illegal file sharing and ‘space-shifting,’ or accessing a user’s own songs to a different device for listening outside of a regular location, it argues that any transfer of songs that has not been explicitly approved is illegal,” MacNN reports.
Full article, including link to the RIAA’s legal brief (PDF), here.
MacDailyNews Take: The only way to effectively compete with piracy is to offer DRM-free (or unobtrusively DRM’ed) content that can be played anywhere for a reasonable price. Then people will buy. It’s a simple solution that most of the world’s content providers have yet to understand.
So, after buying a music CD, I’m supposed to carry it around with me (along with my other music CDs) and use a huge portable CD player to listen to them. Are those things still being made? How very quaint… we’re back in the 1980’s.
The RIAA is more out of touch with reality than I ever imagined.
don’t you mean our passion YOUR potential?
mw: looking, as in… where is she?
Quote “”Converting music CDs to audio files on a computer is unapproved and therefore illegal, the Recording Industry Association of America has said in a brief.”
Funny, but that wasn’t the law back when I bought my CD.
Plus, I don’t see anything close to that listed in its End User License Agreement (EULA).
In 2030, it will be illegal to for a Lawyer to ever lie. Better turn yourself in now and beg for mercy, Gents.
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I’m just glad that I never hear anything on the radio I like anymore. I’m never tempted to buy a CD or steal an mp3. I’d like to thank the music labels for that.
GOOD LINK:
Go to this: http://digitalcopy.warnerbros.com/support/index.html
and then click on “feedback”. It works.
C3
That does it. I’ve had enough of this assine argument and legal BS. I refuse to ever purchase music again in any form whatsoever.
Viva la revolution.
Wow! what the hell are they thinking! They’re not is my immediate response. Don’t they know that if they do, for some unknown sick reason win the Arizona case, millions and millions of music lovers will not walk into the music stores and buy a c.d because we can’t listen to it via any other device. Idiots. Well, I have to congratulate apple itunes in advance because those millions and millions of music lovers like myself will only buy songs on-line, thank you very much. These “know nothing” people from the music industry are only going to hurt the sales of the artists they are trying to promote. I have one last thing to say! DEE, DEE, DEE