RIAA going after someone for having mp3 copies of legally purchased CDs

[Sean]

So here's a new low from the asses over at the RIAA.

"...in an unusual case...the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer."

Don't these dip-wads make listening to music fun? :rolleyes: Here's the link to the full article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html

[joethelion]

that's so ridiculous that it's actually funny...

like - does AZ live in a time-warp, where napster is 'new' and people still have mini-disc players instead of having to buy those bulky x4 speed cd burners (which are standalone & don't connect to your computer)

[gambit]

What. The. Fuck.

[BeautifulBurnout]

What. The. Fuck.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
*goes into old fart reminiscent mode*

When I think of the first days of the cassette recorder - I had my first one when I was 12. Shaped like a shoe box, had to hold a mic near the record player to record an album onto a cassette which you shared with your friends. But at least, between you, you could buy one album a week and record it for the others so they got to have a copy of it in albeit dubious quality.

Gradually as technology improved you had cassette recorders incorporated into stereo stack systems which meant you could record as many cassettes as you wanted for people.

I don't remember the men in suits threatening us then. But it would have been difficult for them to have found us in the first place. And also they didn't have greedy bastard asshole governments bending over and dropping their trousers to the the evil corporations and passing legislation to encourage greed.

Ah well. The more this goes on the less I feel like spending my money on CDs.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Don't wanna live there, so it's all good.

[m.g.]

:eek: I. Can't. Believe. That. :eek:

[ndrwrld]

null and void in Canada.
fcuk you RIAA.

[Jan]

Turned out to be a hoax.

see here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=60181&hl=

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Let them try to call the Staf Infections and boil bullshit a hoax.

[Sean]

Turned out to be a hoax.

see here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=60181&hl=Thanks for the update. As was mentioned in the thread you linked, that's a pretty huge detail to leave out of the story. Glad to hear that it's not as bad as it initially seemed, but I'm still sick to death of the RIAA in all of this. Their time would be far better spent figuring out ways to develop with new media trends than it currently is in these witch-hunts that are destroying people's lives.

[froopy seal]

"[...] it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer."This is the law in Germany if the original CD has "effective copy protection" (no, being cracked does NOT automatically render the copy protection ineffective...), see art. 95a German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz - UrhG). I could imagine the RIAA having the law on their side in the US and the UK, too. Which doesn't make it any better, morally, of course.

[testudo]

I know this is a bit offtopic, but does anyone have an invite to waffles or what? I'd love to have one... please PM me thank you very much in advance for your help and concern.

[sanakan]

This is the law in Germany if the original CD has "effective copy protection" (no, being cracked does NOT automatically render the copy protection ineffective...), see art. 95a German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz - UrhG). I could imagine the RIAA having the law on their side in the US and the UK, too. Which doesn't make it any better, morally, of course.

not in switzerland *hooray*!
URG Art. 24 Abs. 1 (http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/2/231.1.de.pdf) states that you're allowed to manufacture (non public available) security copies for your own use.

[lukeyd]

how very topical. read this yesterday http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7176538.stm

[bas_I_am]

I was About to say it has to be bullshit- Congress passed the "fair use" act a few years ago - but I assume the article posted went into that

[pafufta816]

Turned out to be a hoax.

see here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=60181o&hl= (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=60181&hl=)of course it is, it is 100% legal to own copies of music which you have legally purchased. not only is it legal, i recommend it ; ) *cough*

[froopy seal]

of course it is, it is 100% legal to own copies of music which you have legally purchased. not only is it legal, i recommend it ; ) *cough*No, not 100%. I. e., not if you live in Germany and the disc has "effective copy protection", as I wrote above. Nonetheless, it is to be recommended, of course. :D