Posted Dec 29th 2007 6:50PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Portable Audio
Sure, we've heard RIAA-admiring lawyers affirm that ripping your own CDs is in fact "stealing," but it seems the aforementioned entity is putting its money where its mouth is in a case against Jeffrey Howell. Reportedly, the Scottsdale, Arizona resident is being sued by the RIAA, and rather than Mr. Howell just writing a check and calling it a day, he's fighting back in court. Interestingly, it seems that the industry is maintaining that "it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into their computer." Ira Schwartz, the industry's lawyer in the case, is arguing that MP3 files created on his computer from legally purchased CDs are indeed "unauthorized copies," and while we've no idea what will become of all this, we suppose you should go on and wipe those personal copies before you too end up in handcuffs.
And the cattle prods charged, Three phase bulk eraser and a cattle prod are waiting pateintly for the sods that make the gestapo look like angels of mercy
SetoTK wrote:And the cattle prods charged, Three phase bulk eraser and a cattle prod are waiting pateintly for the sods that make the gestapo look like angels of mercy
And to think you made that new post in Rules about spam...
All my Cds are on my PC and burnt cds, External Hard drive, too.
People should not really use CDs to listen to since they get scratched easily, and can crack if bent. Plus, MP3 players don`t cost as much thesedays compared to 5 years a go.
