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RIAA is out of control.
Dec. 11th, 2007 08:54 pmFrom ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morgandawn:
Those MP3 and AAC files that you've ripped from your CD collection arestill "unauthorized copies" in the eyes of the recording industry. In abrief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 files on a PCowned by a file-sharing defendant who had admitted to ripping themhimself were "unauthorized copies."
RIAA is completely out of control.
So let me get this straight.
If you don't pay for the music, you get prosecuted for stealing.
If you do pay for the music, you still get prosecuted for stealing.
Where is the incentive to pay for the music? The consequences are the same.
When is RIAA going to get that music has been available for free for the last century on this thing called "radio"? And that they need to create an internet streaming version of radio, quick, or else song swapping will be the only way people will hear of new music.
morgandawn:Those MP3 and AAC files that you've ripped from your CD collection arestill "unauthorized copies" in the eyes of the recording industry. In abrief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 files on a PCowned by a file-sharing defendant who had admitted to ripping themhimself were "unauthorized copies."
RIAA is completely out of control.
So let me get this straight.
If you don't pay for the music, you get prosecuted for stealing.
If you do pay for the music, you still get prosecuted for stealing.
Where is the incentive to pay for the music? The consequences are the same.
When is RIAA going to get that music has been available for free for the last century on this thing called "radio"? And that they need to create an internet streaming version of radio, quick, or else song swapping will be the only way people will hear of new music.
