The RIAA has lost it

-or- complete and utter BS

Published on February 16, 2006 By BlueDev In Current Events

Throw away your iPod. Toss out the Zen. Nuke your Nomad.

Apparently the RIAA no longer thinks that ripping your CDs to put on a portable music player is covered under "fair use". And don't you dare back up those CDs either, you miserable little thief.

Even though, for a while now, they have been telling us it was okay to rip our CDs to put on a computer or portable music device, they have changed their minds. Now we need to get individual permission from whoever holds the copyright. So looks like we will have to contact the labels, artists, etc. just to use our iPods.

Bull.

That is just ridiculous. Look, I understand wanting to stop piracy. I support that (depending on the methods used). But the principle impetus in my wanting to get an iPod is so that I can load my entire CD collection on it and then carry it with me wherever I go. I don't use iTunes to purchase music, as I would much rather purchase the actual CD.

And you can forget it if you think I am going to buy all my discs again, just so the RIAA is happy with how I am loading my iPod.

I thought they were a bunch of blood sucking wackos before. This confirms it.

Comments (Page 2)

BlueDev

on Feb 18, 2006

They're hurting the artists more than anyone, as the artists have no control over their own music anymore.

And yet they keep insisting that it is us, the consumers, who are hurting the artists buy downloading, sharing or just not buying enough music. They suck.

The world of online music distribution (read huge profits) was their oyster in 1996.

I agree 100%. It boggles my mind that they continue to flail against it, rather than embrace it. They need to realize that people who want to 'pirate" (for lack of a better term) music are going to do it. Period. They will always find a way. SO, they need to make it easier for us honest, purchasing folk to get the music we want and use it how we want to, for ourselves.

joeKnowledge

on Feb 18, 2006

all I want to know is how do i get my music that is on tape and turn it into a mp3. I have stuff from the 80's and 90's and I have like no way of listening to them.

wait... I can't do that, because the RIAA just said so. Oh well... I guess i should THROE ALL THE MUSIC I paid for out and then buy some more.

bakerstreet

on Feb 18, 2006

all I want to know is how do i get my music that is on tape and turn it into a mp3. I have stuff from the 80's and 90's and I have like no way of listening to them."

Use the line-in on your sound card, or buy one of those nifty tape decks they make for PCs now. I saw one at the store the other day.

bakerstreet

on Feb 18, 2006

joeKnowledge: Here's the one I was talking about --Link.

RIAA is Dead

on Feb 19, 2006

It is commiting suicide. My BIL and his 2 children both have IPods and rip their CDs to fill the things (they are not paying iTunes 99 cents per song - not at 5000 song capacity!). RIAA in its penny wise and pound foolish greed has decided to slay the golden goose to see if it can extract the eggs directly. Instead, no one will bother to be legal since doing so deprives them of their rights under the DCMA.

Gideon MacLeish

on Feb 19, 2006

Instead, no one will bother to be legal since doing so deprives them of their rights under the DCMA.

Exactly. This latest round of idiocy is essentially ENCOURAGING piracy.

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