RIAA: Those CD rips of yours are still "unauthorized&qu

[KamiQuazi]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... rized.html

Whats next? Pay-Per-Listen?

[ontarian_frog]

Well it was always legal here in canada to make a copy for yourself, so that wouldn't hold up here... That's why we pay the CD tax here.

[kirbycope]

You see, cd's don't cost a lot to make but they're still expensive. Here's why: licensing. You pay for a license to listen to the media on that disc. You don't own that music.

The only legal way to have mp3s is to buy them.
http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studie ... study.html

[ontarian_frog]

CD tax is on the CD-R, so everytime you buy one CD-R or more you pay a certain fee per cd because it can be used to copy copyrighted content.

http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml

to quote them

The Private Copying Regime only addresses making private copies for your own use of sound recordings of musical works.

Meaning we pay (in Canada) so that we can make legal copies of music works... Now how far this is true for MP3's can still e debated because I don't have that information. I believe the RIAA is crying because it doesn't get levy's from personal mp3s, hence why they don't want you to use that format to make a copy of your purchased music.

[mikedudley17]

RIAA=GAY

[khan4rtist]

**** them, they lose money, but theyre big comanies....theyll live

[KamiQuazi]

RIAA=GAY

I agree

[Aussie BarinaTK]

yea it kinda sux .. it sounds like they r trying to control what we do with the stuff we payed for

before you kno it itll be mass imprisionment/fines for listening to a song that was ripped from a cd that we payed $20-30 for

[Dayton86]

I have never understood this, so by their reasoning we can go buy a Windows disc and it be perfectly legal but if we put the disc on the hard for faster access that would be illegal? That would be like buying a steak knife and be arrested for using it to cut ham. RIAA=assbags

[aveosummit]

I think it is BullS&*(t attempt at trying to make people feel guilty for enjoying there music, at home on the computer or whatever device they choose to listen to music on. The music industry should give up the hype, they were ripping people off for years with CD prices and now are getting mad that people have a way of storing the music so they don't have to buy new CD's.