The RIAA goes completely insane

[Jim Witte]

How would this interact with the Digital Rio case and the Home  
Recording Rights Act?  The HRRA if I remember right was only  
*written* to specifically apply to analog recordings, but I believe  
the congressional testimony was used in the Digital Rio case to  
sucessfully argue that the *intent* was that it was to apply to ALL  
formats, as long as it was for personal use, or "sharing with no  
monetary gain" (not a quotation, and open to interpretation on what  
exactly 'sharing' means)

Jim

On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote:
> 	But this is somewhat significant because the layer on the RIAA's  
> side has been sliding language into his legal briefs that seems to  
> say that ripping songs from a CD to a computer is "unauthorized  
> copying". There are two ways of reading that statement: 1) it is  
> illegal to format-shift information from a CD to your computer,  
> even for personal use. Or 2) that the format-shifting was no  
> explicitly authorized by the record label, so is "unauthorized" (by  
> the record label), but does fall under fair use.