RIAA Plans Cyberwar Effort

Richie Z writes "This article at the New York Times talks about new anti-piracy efforts from the music industry, some of questionable legality. One idea simply redirects users to a website with legal downloads. But two other programs freeze the user's system or delete music files determined to be illegal. Another proposed idea is basically a DoS attack against downloaders. I guess the RIAA believes the law only applies to their enemies." They had a solution to illegality planned.

Comments

Re:questionable?

[zakezuke]

Dude, you must have a sucky pre-amp. Most users of record players who complain about sucky sound don't realize that you need to adapt vinyl output to line level so your sound card can accept it. Otherwise, get a new needle.

From a moral perspective, I agree with you, but alas the RIAA does not. You can create a backup for your own use, but you can't for example, claim that a mp3 ripped from a CD is your backup. While you can argue about which is the superior format, you can't argue that CD can be done with low loss.

If this was all that was needed, then joe blow could go into their local flea market and buy crappy scratched up vinyl at 10 cents a pop and claim they have a license to a duplicate CD.

Now, if you hunted kazza for vinyl rips, they would be hard pressed to prove you didn't do it your self. They do exist actually. There are atleast a few people that think it's important to preserve music. That's why it's always imporant when you rip, label it properly!

I have NO problems creating backup CDs of my legacy vinyl that sound pretty damn good. In many cases, I have no choice as alot of it is out of print and not available on CD.

Now I have no moral issues with someone who actually bought the vinyl, tape, 8track, whatever... someone who I personaly consider to have a legit license to a particular album getting a backup elsewhere in the event their media is warn. I esp have no moralistic issues for 8track as you can't buy the players new anymore, and chances are the sucker broke cause there was no disclaimer about proper player maintance.

Excuse me while I listen to peter murphy on vinyl