Throw away your iPods. RIAA is now attempting restrict you from making backups or ripping songs to your iPod. Soon we’ll be charged evey time we play a song and lucky if we are allowed to play music at all.
Joint reply by RIAA and other media companies in regards to expanding the DMCA
I was reading somewhere else yesterday where RIAA said that their comments in the grokster lawsuit were not true. They said that format shifting (ie MP4 ->MP3 conversion, etc) is not fair use, even though they said it was in the trial. Here is the link, but, this brings me back to my often stated philosophy that if you limit what people can do with things that you charge money for, people will find ways to do things without being charged money for it. Why does the RIAA keep trying new ways to return the music industry back to 1950?
So true! And it seems that our society, without questioning, is allowing people who say one thing one day, and they say this to make their point, then turn around and say I didn’t really mean to say that or that the person saying it, on my behalf, was total mistaken. People lie, ignore the facts or the consensus, spin the truth or just say what ever they can to push their agenda. In politics particularly, The truth be damned!!!
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The RIAA can kiss my song stealing ass. I totally agree with Mr. Tex on this one. The more they try to restrict the “fair use” the more likely people will be to rip of their usually krappy product. And for the record I do buy CD’s occasionally but only when the whole album is decent.
On another note I just got an iPod which is really pretty cool. iTunes sucks but other than that I’m pretty happy with my purchase and look forward to working around all of Apple’s pathetic attempts at copyright protections and the forced use of iTunes (which is typical of the company that everyone seems to think can do no wrong.) Hi!
True, Apple does lots of things wrong! Just less wrong then Microsft.