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- FLECOM, on 12/11/2007, -2/+534wow... just... wow... these people really will never learn will they?
I'm just blown away by how stupid the RIAA is - mmalone, on 12/11/2007, -1/+425And the DMCA considers a copy held in RAM on a computer a "copy," so does the RIAA consider playing a CD on a computer making an illegal copy?
- Senn, on 12/11/2007, -0/+330So, tell me again why the RIAA still exist, and why they are still relevant?
Disband these ***** already. - magus_melchior, on 12/11/2007, -3/+307They'd better sue Apple, Microsoft, and all the others who made the tools expressly for ripping CDs. If the act of ripping is "unauthorized", they should have made sure that every company that made such software was sent a C&D letter.
- whoCares80, on 12/11/2007, -1/+301they might as well sue everyone in the US i don't know anybody who hasn't ripped a CD to their hard drive!
- andycr512, on 12/11/2007, -0/+291Any CD player with skip protection is also in violation, apparently.
- Coven, on 12/11/2007, -4/+281Obligatory "***** the RIAA" comment
- skellener, on 12/11/2007, -2/+187RIAA - Raging Idiots And *****
If I paid for the CD, I will rip it to my hearts content and there's ***** all they can do about it! It's mine, I paid for it, ***** off and leave me alone. - tprzepiorka, on 12/11/2007, -9/+172***** THE RIAA!
- Bhatch514, on 12/11/2007, -4/+114In Canada i can legally share music. The Canadian Government told the RIAA to go to hell when they wanted to come get people here.
- westhepirate, on 12/11/2007, -0/+106Anything you listen to goes into your own short-term memory, so listening to music is stealing, too.
- DDION, on 12/11/2007, -2/+95My heart is bleeding that the RIAA bigwigs can't get their new Bentley 'til January now because I have ripped a copy of Spiceworld on my hard drive.
- Drahkar, on 12/11/2007, -1/+93This is the standard that most people should be following. Unfortunately having the RIAA say that even fair use of their products is illegal they are alienating any hope of getting a common ground.
- Skooma714, on 12/11/2007, -4/+86As if anyone gives a ***** what they consider stealing.
btw: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 - InfamousAtheist, on 12/11/2007, -1/+74How is this not fair use?
My RIAA/MPAA boycott continues... I may never end it the way things are going. - fkr3, on 12/11/2007, -28/+98Both sides have unreasonable expectations. Ripping cds you've bought for your own personal use is or should be fair use. Pirating music is still wrong.
- cristianorem, on 12/11/2007, -0/+66They need to sue themselves for selling the cds which made said copying possible.
- inactive, on 12/11/2007, -11/+75***** it. I am never buying a single CD ever again unless those labels pull out of the RIAA or are not part of the RIAA Burn in HELL *****..
- Drahkar, on 12/11/2007, -1/+51They still exist and are still relevant because they have stolen or absorbed the rights for a huge portion of the music out there. They claim to be for the artist but the truth is they could give a rats ass about the artist. They are about trying to get more and more money for themselves using outdated distribution models and ignoring the growth of the digital age.
- spyrochaete, on 12/11/2007, -0/+47If that floats your boat try this one on for size.
Sony is a member of the RIAA. You can rip Sony music using Sony software on a Sony CDRW drive installed in a Sony VAIO computer onto Sony brand CDROM media, only play it on your Sony Discman, and they will sue you! - DEFSMAC, on 12/11/2007, -1/+47dear RIAA,
you fail at life.
best regards, Defsmac. - ToadLeg, on 12/11/2007, -1/+44It's like a CD but less shiney
- ghall, on 12/11/2007, -1/+41The RIAA is full of *****. They need to be stopped.
- lazyrussian, on 12/11/2007, -11/+48You know what RIAA, I don;t give two *****. Just last night, my dad and I transfered over all of his ZZTop, Pink Floyd, and Deep Purple onto his MP3 player.
So you know what go ***** yourselves.
I wish pain and all of you, jackasses. - codered1322, on 12/11/2007, -3/+40What is a CD?
- norman619, on 12/11/2007, -2/+39It's not theft.
theft
noun 1. the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny.
2. an instance of this.
3. Archaic. something stolen.
copyright infringement -noun
a violation of the rights secured by a copyright - dukeochutney, on 12/11/2007, -13/+49i might get buried for saying this but im sick and tired of hearing about the RIAA. we've established they're ***** morons. they have no sense of reality, again we know. i can only digg so much RIAA hate articles before i just stop giving a ***** about them. and don't forget the traditional
***** THE RIAA - SilverBlade2k, on 12/11/2007, -1/+37If CD rips are 'unauthorized' and therefore 'illegal'...lets make everything that facilitates this copying illegal.....
CD/DVD burners - oh wait..Sony makes these
Mp3 players - Sony makes these too...
Hi-MD Players - Oh wait..a Sony only product..
Recordable CD and DVD's - Lets see..Sony produces these as well
RAM memory: Oh look at this...Sony Vaio computers uses these..... - john2kx, on 12/11/2007, -6/+41I haven't.. I don't bother digging up my old CD's, I just download everything.
- joncarr, on 12/11/2007, -0/+35The DA circuitry must have some on-chip buffer I would think, so even players w/o skip protection would be in violation of the DMCA.
- DarkDragon, on 12/12/2007, -0/+35The RIAA considers listening to music illegal.
- Proctor, on 12/11/2007, -2/+36RIAA can suck on my *****.
- JedicodeWarrior, on 12/11/2007, -0/+33They're the music mafia. Plain and simple. They are irrelevant for all intents and purposes. They neither produce or sell music; they just insert themselves in to the money chain.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 12/11/2007, -1/+34Its like a Vinyl record but shiney
- BinaryFragger, on 12/11/2007, -0/+33"making copies of your own music is stealing."
So I'm stealing my own CD?
I dare I steal my own stuff. - smackjer, on 12/11/2007, -0/+32They don't win if no one buys their crap, and they die.
- plizard, on 12/11/2007, -0/+31i laughed and thought this was a joke and then i realized it's from the riaa and they are purely stupid
- andibarnes, on 12/11/2007, -4/+34Surely, surely the RIAA aren't stupid enough to push this to trial? I can't see that any court of law in the US could uphold these ridiculous claims, and that must undermine their entire strategy of misinforming the public with regards to their rights! Still, doesn't mean the system isn't broken...
- LoudNoise, on 12/11/2007, -3/+33Let's not forget various artists that have encouraged pirating of their own material.
- windmillninja, on 12/11/2007, -0/+28Bunch of ball-washin' bastards.
- DDION, on 12/11/2007, -0/+28Have you seen the storm coming to Canada? I fear for our musical freedom.
- wingo123, on 12/11/2007, -11/+38I hate those ***** as much as anyone, but this is being misread all over the place.
This is the key line everyone is referring to:
"Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs’ recording into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiffs."
So once they have been ripped AND placed in the (KaZaa) shared folder. No where do they state explicitly that the ripping alone is infringement.
(although I wouldn't be surprised if they do actually believe that) - Godlike, on 12/11/2007, -2/+28RIAA = OBFUSCATED MONOPOLY.
- MadEnvoy, on 12/11/2007, -1/+27They will after reading your comment!
- ferndave, on 12/11/2007, -0/+23And yet it was Canada that got Demonoid taken down. Thanks for nothing.
- dizilbdog, on 12/11/2007, -2/+25Those Groceries you Bought Those really Aren't Yours, it's really still the Stores. Those Pants yeah we own those too, and that car sure it's yours but Really Ford owns it... I've never heard such a thing RIAA are out of there ***** Minds!!!!
- MattB123, on 12/11/2007, -2/+25I understand what you mean, and I think a lot of commenters don't read the story.
BUT, the outrage (at least the outrage I share) is that the RIAA are still saying ripping your own CDs is equivalent to stealing.
Now either you didn't read the article, didn't get it, or you agree with them. Which is it? - insinuate, on 12/11/2007, -10/+31pirating may be wrong, but it just feels so damn good.
- adoggz, on 12/11/2007, -1/+21what's a vinyl record?
- ileftfark, on 12/11/2007, -1/+21"When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'," she [Jennifer Pariser of Sony BMG) said.
Where does it say "files ripped and placed in a share folder"? She specifically states any copy is unauthorized. -
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