RIAA: Ripping CDs to iPod not 'Fair Use' 830
dotpavan writes "EFF has this article about RIAA saying that ripping CDs and backing them up does not come under Fair use.
Ars Technica also reports on this, by quoting, "The [submitted arguments in favor of granting exemptions to the DMCA] provide no arguments or legal authority that making back up copies of CDs is a noninfringing use. In addition, the submissions provide no evidence that access controls are currently preventing them from making back up copies of CDs or that they are likely to do so in the future. Myriad online downloading services are available and offer varying types of digital rights management alternatives. For example, the Apple FairPlay technology allows users to make a limited number of copies for personal use. Presumably, consumers concerned with the ability to make back up copies would choose to purchase music from a service that allowed such copying. Even if CDs do become damaged, replacements are readily available at affordable prices. Similar to the motion picture industry, the recording industry has faced, in online piracy, a direct attack on its ability to enjoy its copyrights.""
Very affordable (Score:4, Funny)
No duh. When my "The Wall" CD was wrecked, I found the music on Kazaa Lite, and it as at an extremely affordable price I could not refuse.
What a ripoff... (Score:5, Funny)
RIAA Goon 2: Let's sell CDs covered with heroin! Then they'll need to keep buying more CDs to get their fix!
G1: Although we're above the law, I don't wanna use heroin. It's expensive.
G2: Hmm... I've got it! Let's charge them for something they ALREADY OWN!
G1: Great Scott!! Like what?
G2: We'll tell those suckers that ripping CDs to MP3 players (especially iPods!!) is illegal and that they'll need to buy DIGITAL (ooooh the d-word) music for their MP3 players.
G1: Brilliant! Except, we already said that was legal when we sued Grokster.
G2: Well, say now it isn't!! The dumb consumers bend to us!! We are above the law!!
G1: Well, all right. Good idea, Jim. I'm gonna go now, I have $2.4 million from Britney Spears' latest album to roll around in and wipe my ass with. See ya!
Re:Buy it again, Sam. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Enjoy? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Buy it again, Sam. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Backup and preservation of investment? (Score:3, Funny)
Recording devices would be illegal and all legal turntables would have a surface scratching device right behind the needled to ensure that you could only play it once and then have to buy it again in the name of "protecting the copyrights of the poor poor artists."
Re:Buy it again, Sam. (Score:5, Funny)
I feel so sorry for the poor RIAA, having to deal with you tightwads with limited storage space, and welcome the day when they can download whatever they want directly into the back of your brain and charge it to your bank account.
hookers: having sex at home is not fair (Score:2, Funny)
IN CAPITALIST AMERICA... (Score:3, Funny)
...music buys YOU!
My Music (Score:3, Funny)
Their Music
Their Pictures
Why does no one get it? (Score:5, Funny)
You need to buy a copy of the song for EVERY piece of hardware. See you get the CD for your CD player. You buy the songs online to put on your MP3 player. You buy a DVD-Audio copy for your DVD drive. You buy the songs online again for your MP3 CD's for your car stereo. Oh, and lest we forget, you write a check to RIAA for the copies of the songs that are in your head. Wait, you HAVEN'T written your check yet? You should be ashamed!
Re:Buy it again, Sam. (Score:5, Funny)
As we say in Joisy, if a member of the RIAA board becomes, shall we say, "damaged", replacements are available at a reasonable cost...
/. riaa site (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Very affordable (Score:5, Funny)
We don't need no rights control
No play restriction on our iPod
Execs leave us buyers alone
Re:That's simply not true (Score:3, Funny)
And by affordable I mean the same price the discs were sold originally.
The logistics of that should stop them right on the tracks.
Re:Backup and preservation of investment? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let me get this straight (Score:5, Funny)
CDs are like particle waves.
CD's obviously have 2 mutually exclusive, but simultanious behaviours - just like photons.
If you do the math one way, photons are a wave. Use different criteria, and poof they are particles.
CD's are no different, we substitute law for math, liscense for wave, objects for particles, and CD's for photons.
The result: if you do the law one way, CD's are a liscence. Use different criteria, and poof they are objects.
WHOOT - PATENT TIME: Quantum Law.
Now if I can only work out a theory of relativity that shows how software is relavent to patents...
The RIAA can eat... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Buy it again, Sam. (Score:4, Funny)
You can't kill someone who's already dead inside.
-Eric
Their Way (Score:4, Funny)
They would completely have no problem with forcing this upon the customer. When confronted, they would shrug and say that it allows them to serve their customers better. By the way, if you buy the 'Special Edition' CD, its authorizations are listed on a different server that doesn't go down quite as often.
And if you play the CD in another computer, the key is invalidated and you must purchase a new one.
Re:No CDs (Score:3, Funny)
An early apology to anyone who may be offended.
Re:Well... (Score:2, Funny)
Good luck with that.
Just tell them that, as a parent, you think the RIAA is cool, or whatever the positive slang word for good is nowadays.
That might work.
Re:Big surprise (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, musical rights are governed by a special version of a well known quantum physical law, the RIAA's Musical License-Property Duality. This law stipulates that the rights to musical works depend on the situation: if music is to be resold to a third party, the rights to it behave like a license, thus disallowing such sales. If however the music medium becomes damaged and unplayable, its rights take on the shape of those to physical goods, making medium exchanges impossible and unfair to the manufacturer. It's a very strange and fascinating area of quantum (musical IP) physics.