Re: [bomp] Fair use

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

linda@coololdstuff.com wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:47:03 -0500
>> From: Blair Buscareno <blairb@mac.com>
>> Subject: [bomp] You've gotta be friggin' KIDDING me!
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html?hpid=topnews
>>
>> According to the RIAA, ripping an MP3 of a CD you own is *also*
>> illegal.  Whatever happened to "fair use" - the tenet that you were
>>     
> allowed one copy for personal use?
>
> Fair use has always been a very murky area of the copyright law.  I'm not
> surprised by the RIAA using it as another means to try to wring money out
> of people.
>
> What I wanna know is, how did the RIAA find out about this guy if he
> wasn't sharing files...?

According to the article, he *was* sharing files.  But the RIAA's filing 
is trying to nail him on both points:  (1) the file sharing itself and 
(2) the fact that he even made MP3s of songs he actually owned.

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