Thread: RIAA claims that ripping music from a CD is illegal

How likely is it that this could ever happen? If 96% of music on MP3 players is ripped, then that's alot of people up for lawsuits.

They're funny.

I read half of that report article thing, I reckon in the future - We'll all be in jail. Earth will be one big prison. It's illegal to use computers. Hey - If it's against the law listening to music off our computers, then it's officially illegal to use computers to gain access to the internet

It's either that or we'll just be fined for playing online games.

DV membership fees will be the first omen of the coming internet dystopia, methinks.

Oh yeah - Membership fees, if that starts happaning, someone's going out the window and it isn't me

Defenestration FTW!!!

I think this is part of a bigger tactic. They say something ludicrous to get people riled up, and then it'll be easier for people to accept a less ludicrous (but still silly) idea. Kind of like that joke where the 15 year old girl says to her family that she's pregnant, and the family freaks out, only to have the girl say "well, I'm not really pregnant, but I got an F", and the family doesn't freak out over the F now.

I tried that joke.

Didn't work.

Originally Posted by Replicon

I think this is part of a bigger tactic. They say something ludicrous to get people riled up, and then it'll be easier for people to accept a less ludicrous (but still silly) idea. Kind of like that joke where the 15 year old girl says to her family that she's pregnant, and the family freaks out, only to have the girl say "well, I'm not really pregnant, but I got an F", and the family doesn't freak out over the F now.

That's a very good point. Even the article mentions that "[t]he RIAA's own Web site is more conciliatory, but implies that the organization reserves the right to go after music 'rippers' should it changed its mind." That change of mind might not come, but it seems like an excellent way to lessen the impact of slightly less outrageous claims in the future and even to create the mindset where people will just accept and take for granted such outrageous claims.

This has to stop. Now.

If the RIAA can squeeze through "unauthorised copies" into case law, it'll have impacts over the whole entertainment & IT industry

Format shifting is the one saving grace for early adopters
HD-DVD or BluRay?
which will win, which will sink?
Will either of them win, or will something else come along?

if you're an early adopter, you can shift your legally bought movies to a different format, if your one bombs

We already pay a tax on blank media, thanks to the record & film industry's complaining about piracy
Screw you, I'm backing up my computer

Anyway,
I like this response
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/...ehaving_b.html

That will never ever stick. Copying CDs and putting all my music in one library is so much easier than flipping through all my CDs until I find the music that I want. iTunes is my main music library and the CDs themselves are my backup.

I hope that they're not trying to take the rip feature out of iTunes. Big software names like Apple would have to do that if something like that passes and I hate 3rd party software.

Well, I think music today sucks anyway, but what the RIAA is doing - it's getting out of hand. CDs are going to die if this passes. I mean who uses a CD player anymore?

And how the would they know if anyone ripped anything onto their computer or if they had MP3s on it? The only way I could see it being possible is through some sort of monitoring program, which is a complete invasion of privacy unless you consent to having it (which who in their right mind would).

If ripping your own CDs is stealing, then so is eating your own food.