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RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In an Arizona case against a defendant who has no legal representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing — contrary to its lawyers' statements to the United States Supreme Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster — that the defendant's ripping of personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a copyright infringement. At page 15 of its brief (PDF) it states the following: 'It is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies... Virtually all of the sound recordings... are in the ".mp3" format for his and his wife's use... Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies...'"
Will somebody shut the RIAA down already...they're becoming more criminal then they think the people that are suing are... (How's that for some nifty english)
The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill.
It's fair in the ethical sense of the word. But in the legal sense, it's not. One more way laws and ethics collide, and ethics loses.
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"A cd or track? $1 per track, or $0.33 / minute."
Wow. You only listen to a CD once, then throw it away? Are you one of those guys that only wears a pair of underwear one time before pitching it too?
Listen to a song 100 times as background music--which is pretty easy to do--and it's now $0.0033 / minute.
But it's nice to know that regardless of the facts, you've found your rationalization...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.