RIAA = Evil

Tek7 (Legacy)

Tek7 (Legacy)

CGA & ToJ President
If anyone has any doubts about the content industry's resolve to destroy fair use and usher in new ways of charging you for uses that were previously both free and fair, look no further. As part of the triennial review of the effectiveness of the DMCA, a number of content-related industries have filed a joint reply (PDF) with the government on the effectiveness of the DMCA and the challenges that lay ahead for copyright. As you might expect, the document is a celebration of the DMCA, and the industries are pushing for even more egregious abuses of technology to fatten up their bottom lines.
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Source: RIAA et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use, arstechnica
 
Any 'solution' that they conjure up always ends up punishing those of us who actually pay for the cds. No matter how strict the copy protection is on a cd, it will always be rippable. After it is ripped, there's no way to keep it from being shared with pirates and as a result it has little or no effect on them. The only person that gets slammed is the person who bought the cd with the actual copy protection on it.

I rip every cd that I buy to my backup PC for the sole purpose of having a backup of the music that I paid for in case something happens to my cd. I should have every right to do that. I paid for it. It's mine. As long as I don't share it with others, it should be perfectly legal. I would do the same for my DVD collection if it weren't so expensive and time consuming to do so.
 
astrod00d said:
I rip every cd that I buy to my backup PC for the sole purpose of having a backup of the music that I paid for in case something happens to my cd.
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Ditto. If the RIAA does manage to buy a few senators, tuck them neatly into its swollen wallet, and pass legislation that strikes down fair use, I imagine there will be a great number of exemplary citizens who will continue to rip music from CDs they purchase as an act of civil disobedience.

A law eliminating fair use would be an unjust law. The waters are already muddied with laws against circumventing DVD copy protection (which violate the established principle of fair use); allowing the RIAA to gain any further momentum is very, very bad news.

There is a bit of good news in all this: Most of the music the RIAA publishes isn't worth the time and bandwidth to steal, anyway.
 
I'm too young to remember, but was this ever an issue with casset tapes? Did the RIAA try and crack down on that practice at all?
 
Nope. Cassette tapes can't be freely traded over the internet.

Funny part is, I still have dozens of cassette tapes that I taped off the radio in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

EDIT: Drat, shouldn't have said anything. About 15 seconds after I posted that, I got an e-mail from the RIAA demanding payment for the songs off those cassettes.
 
simple solution to the rootkit problem: just don't buy any sony music. aside from switchfoot, i don't think i'd buy any of their stuff anyway.
 
i just say we all buy are music from itunes or something the arthist get more money that way and i think none to little for the riaa
 
American recording industry = exploiting musicians and exploiting consumers.

I'd like to say that that's an overgeneralization, but I'd need proof to support that claim. As of this moment, I have none.
 
I worked for apple phone support for a short while and this is an article that a lot of people got a chuckle from.
http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/25/labels-hit-back-at-apple-now-want-share-of-ipod-revenues/

Bronfman says that flat-rate pricing is unfair and that, "Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more. I don't want to give anyone the impression that $0.99 is a thing of the past"
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Well, if Apple is "artificially" keeping the price of downloads low to promote sales of iPods (you can debate amongst yourselves whether 99 cents is artificially high or artificially low), then as he sees it, the labels should get to "share in those [iPod] revenue streams
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The RIAA wants money for IPOD Sales... That would be like the MPAA asking for money on DVD player sales.
 
Are we almost at the point now where digital recording technology can allow artists to produce their own solidly sounding music without the need for the major recording studios of recording companies?

That would be cool.

So would "digital" distribution of other things, like food.

How long do you think it'd take to download a Crunch Wrap Supreme on dial-up?
 
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