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March 1, 2007

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The RIAA strikes again

Posted Mar. 1, ’07, 11:15 AM PT by Kate Marshall
Category | Legal

blank%20DVD.jpgHaving previously decided that ripping your CDs to your iPod should be illegal, the RIAA is now complaining that a new fair-use bill would legalize hacking. The bill itself aims to strengthen consumer fair-use rights by letting people get around copy restrictions in limited doses as long as the copyright owner’s business model isn’t threatened. So what does the RIAA have to say about that?

But the RIAA said the bill would effectively repeal the DMCA. The bill would “allow electronics companies to induce others to break the law for their own profit,” it said in a statement. Advances such digital music sales, online games, on-demand movies and e-books can be traced to DMCA protects, the RIAA said.
As we all know (but wish we didn’t), the Digital Millenium Copyright Act makes it possible for you to not take your legally-obtained DVD of, let’s say, The Phantom of the Opera and burn a back-up disc for safe-keeping. Because apparently, that is the Path to Hades! Grr, argh. If you need me, I’ll be tending to the massive headache brought on by the RIAA’s latest shenanigans.


2 Comments

nelsorp said:

hmm... i wonder when the RIAA will realize that regardless of what kind of shenanigans they come up with, people will always find away around them, and pretty much do what they want with their cds (and dvds for that matter). i burn backups of almost all the albums/dvds i own. if i scratch one up, i still have the orignal to go back too. rules are meant to be broken. especially when they are outdated and ridiculous. there is a limit to how much people will put up with.

March 1, 2007 11:51 AM
Larry V said:

"Advances such digital music sales, online games, on-demand movies and e-books can be traced to DMCA protects, the RIAA said."

There's a classic quote.

March 1, 2007 8:42 PM

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