RIAA: Ripping CDs to iPod is Not Fair Use

[haohmaru]

There will be a way around that, too, eventually.

[Diff-chan]

There will be a way around that, too, eventually.

Probably. But I have some DRM'd movies downloaded from, you know, subscription-based websites and I cant find a way to hax0r the DRM. It'll get progressively more difficult, and really do we want a fucking arms race with content providers? We've already seen what happens there, they treat us like criminals and then they sue 12 year olds for their lunch money. It will only get worse.

[Josh]

It will only get worse.

At which point everyone will realize how absurd the whole thing and the entie music industry will be rebuilt from the ground up. [/perfect]

[Cheebs]

A dying media that *will* be replaced with crippled DRMware. Id rather have CDs forever.

QFT.... again.

[Fe 26]

At which point everyone will realize how absurd the whole thing and the entie music industry will be rebuilt from the ground up. [/perfect]

You're feeling very positive today.

[Beefy Hits]

I still like the permenent CD to have. HDs can get wiped out, computers will eventually be replaced with MP3s on them. Not to mention MP3 players will eventually be replaced.

[Bacon McShig]

Given the state of the industry, the RIAA should be graciously sucking off every consumer that's still buying CDs. Yet here they are, trying to give them grief for it.

GG.

[gameoverDude]

But no company is going to stand up to the RIAA and say you guys need to stop it, nobody is starving at HQ and you make billions of dollars every year.

Nobody in their ranks is starving, that's for sure. The suits probably eat dinner at Smith & Wollensky class restaurants every single night, most likely washing it down with a bottle of Dom Perignon and an imported cigar.

If you buy a song, you should be able to back it up. So you buy the CD. Why should you have to pay 2 times just to play its content on the iPod? Furthermore why should legit customers be considered potential thieves and be h4xor3d by the music industry?

Perhaps the RIAA and MPAA would like to try to get computers outlawed.

I'll take CDs over a DRM'd bullshit format anyday. That said, they need to charge $10 maximum per CD. The music industry does need some sort of overhaul.

[voltz]

Going on what diff said, we also have the problem of getting voices to speak against the recording industry. When it comes to lobbying rules, we have to pay so much just to get someone on the floor for representing our interests and most of us don't have that kind of money to begin with.

Far as the gov is concerned, they're pretty much owned by the corporate empire. Nothing short of an economical movement is gonna change their mind.

Oh yeah, the beta-max rule still stands. There's no changing it so the RIAA can kiss my ass.

[napalm]

My illegally downloaded music goes onto my iPod, which is played in my car through my iTrip.

At least that would be the case had I not recently lost my iTrip

The iTrip is a piece of crap.