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RIAA: You can't copy your purchased CDs to your own computer
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:27:22 -0800
________________________________________ From: Dan Gillmor [dan () gillmor com] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 1:47 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: RIAA Dave, From the RIAA's website at some point in the past, though it's been removed: "If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail." http://web.archive.org/web/20070516072606/http://www.riaa.com/issues/ask/default.asp#stand Also, from the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Grokster case, Donald Virrelli, on behalf of the entertainment companies: "The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on their Website for some time now, that it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod. There is a very, very significant lawful commercial use for that device, going forward." Such a sleazy crew they are... Dan
---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: RIAA: You can't copy your purchased CDs to your own computer Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:43:25 -0800 <snip> 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. But lawyers for consumers point to a series of court rulings over the last few decades that found no violation of copyright law in the use of VCRs and other devices to time-shift TV programs; that is, to make personal copies for the purpose of making portable a legally obtained recording. As technologies evolve, old media companies tend not to be the source of the innovation that allows them to survive. Even so, new technologies don't usually kill off old media: That's the good news for the recording industry, as for the TV, movie, newspaper and magazine businesses. But for those old media to survive, they must adapt, finding new business models and new, compelling content to offer. The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only "created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies," Beckerman says. "Every problem they're trying to solve is worse now than when they started." The industry "will continue to bring lawsuits" against those who "ignore years of warnings," RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said in a statement. "It's not our first choice, but it's a necessary part of the equation. There are consequences for breaking the law." And, perhaps, for firing up your computer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html?nav=hcmodule
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