The RIAA has lost its corporate mind.
Dec. 31st, 2007 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakFrom here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html
The quote that says it all: "Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, 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."
Bolding mine.
What the hell???? What was their position on mix tapes, back in the day? Or mix CDs now? Or people who copy a purchased CD to a blank one so they can take the copy on car trips and not risk damaging the original?
Bakas.
Edit: Finished reading the article, and here's their (in my opinion, ludicrous) view on copying even one song for your own use: " The Howell case was not the first time the industry has argued that making a personal copy from a legally purchased CD is illegal. At the Thomas trial in Minnesota, Sony BMG's chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, testified that "when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Copying a song you bought is "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy,' " she said. "
Again, bakas.
The quote that says it all: "Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, 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."
Bolding mine.
What the hell???? What was their position on mix tapes, back in the day? Or mix CDs now? Or people who copy a purchased CD to a blank one so they can take the copy on car trips and not risk damaging the original?
Bakas.
Edit: Finished reading the article, and here's their (in my opinion, ludicrous) view on copying even one song for your own use: " The Howell case was not the first time the industry has argued that making a personal copy from a legally purchased CD is illegal. At the Thomas trial in Minnesota, Sony BMG's chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, testified that "when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Copying a song you bought is "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy,' " she said. "
Again, bakas.
