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RIAA Sues MP3.com
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The RIAA has already questioned your right to make copies of music you own for personal use, if you use a computer to do it.
Their Web site claims that it is illegal to copy music onto a computer hard drive, whether or not you own the music in question. They do not want you to be able to use any digital recorders (for instance, computer CD-RW drives) that are exempt from the AHRA's SCMS and recorder/media taxes. This also amounts to a claim that it is illegal for you to make MP3 files from CDs that you own for your own personal use.
When they made this argument to the judge in the Rio court case and attempted to get the judge to make such a ruling, the judge didn't fall for it. The court ruled that just because AHRA offers an automatic statutory immunity for copying using a narrow class of devices, that does not mean that Fair Use rights are negated for other equipment. (See the analysis on the EFF Web site.)
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Their Web site claims that it is illegal to copy music onto a computer hard drive, whether or not you own the music in question. They do not want you to be able to use any digital recorders (for instance, computer CD-RW drives) that are exempt from the AHRA's SCMS and recorder/media taxes. This also amounts to a claim that it is illegal for you to make MP3 files from CDs that you own for your own personal use.
When they made this argument to the judge in the Rio court case and attempted to get the judge to make such a ruling, the judge didn't fall for it. The court ruled that just because AHRA offers an automatic statutory immunity for copying using a narrow class of devices, that does not mean that Fair Use rights are negated for other equipment. (See the analysis on the EFF Web site.)