RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software 257
First time accepted submitter moj0joj0 writes "Two days after YouTube-MP3.org, a site that converts songs from music videos into MP3 files, was blocked from accessing YouTube, the RIAA has asked CNET to remove software from Download.com that performs a similar function. The RIAA focused its criticism on software found at Download.com called YouTubeDownloader. The organization also pointed out that there are many other similar applications available at the site, 'which can be used to steal content from CBS, which owns Download.com.' CNET's policy is that Download.com is not in any position to determine whether a piece of software is legal or not or whether it can be used for illegal activity." For a sufficiently broad definition of "steal," you could argue that all kinds of software (from word processors to graphics programs to security analysis tools) could be implicated.
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Re:Sound recording? (Score:5, Funny)
>RIAA, would you like to sue Microsoft for having software that ships in Windows that can record audio-out and save it to a wav/mp3 file?
The RIAA will not be satisfied until they successfully make illegal 3.5mm stereo patch cords that can go from audio-out to audio-in.
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Re:Stream, Download, what's the difference... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stream, Download, what's the difference... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:"can be used for illegal activity" (Score:5, Funny)
Not just software. Did you know that all x86 and x86-64 processors contain an instruction called MOV? Despite the innocuous name, this instruction does not in fact MOVE data from one place from another. Rather, it COPIES the data, leaving it in both places -- and that's not the only instruction which does so, just the most common. The ARM processors and even the POWER processors all have similar instructions. The whole industry is involved in a massive conspiracy to violate the copyrights of the xxAAs.
Re:If it's just the word "Steal", it'd be easy ... (Score:4, Funny)
where no one can do nothing
So everyone must do something?
Re:If it's just the word "Steal", it'd be easy ... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't get the anger.
we have the representatives they have selected for us. and there are products they have released for us to consume, plus even given us a few ways to consume them.
I think we should just trust our corporations since they could not have gotton as far as they have if they didn't know what was best for us.
Re:Stream, Download, what's the difference... (Score:5, Funny)
They don't seem to understand that people will just create new software to keep downloaded data from being deleted.
They need to ban programming languages.