Gentlemen, check out the following Washington Post article:
Ripping CD's Illegal
According to the article, in a brief filed by the RIAA in an Arizona case, the RIAA has said it is illegal to simply rip your own personal CD onto your computer. Yeah, you may have bought the CD and have absolutely no intention to distribute the file, but as soon as you rip it so you can put it on your iPod, you've broken the copyright law. I think this is outrageous! What do you guys think? It seems to me the recording industry is digging their own grave.
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I wonder if you were considered breaking the law when you made your own cassette tape recordings. I know that there is something called "fair use" which tends to limit how restrictive recording companies can get with their recordings. I don't think it will hold up in court, but they can try.
I know I was one of the many kids who "Ripped" my own cassettes! What may also be frying the industry executives is the consumer is having more and more access to what used to be "professional" level tools and fidelity. I think they really need to change their mindset, because consumer access isn't going to go back!
I agree. The music industry is destined to be a smaller industry in the future due to new technologies. The ease to professionally record your music is here. There are many home recording studios now. Plus you can promote your own music using the many avenues of the internet. Facebook, MySpace, iTunes. But the music industry will be kicking and screaming all the way. It has already happened in the newspaper business. Their revenue is way down due to reduced subscriptions and classified ad revenue. Primarily due to online news and sites like craigslist.org. The music industry needs to find their nitch where they offer value and people would be willing to pay for it.
Kicking and screaming is so right on. They just can't help themselves - they keep wanting those never ending dollars coming through never ending subscriptions along with having consumers keep on paying for the same music on new media. But all that is over, and they just can't give it up! You often hear of industry executives blaming Apple for shortchanging the music companies!
The music companies don't want to acknowledge there is a new paradigm where music is cheaper to produce, market, and distribute. Which has to result in less profits for the music giants. All other industries have become more productive over the years. Now its the music business time.
OK...this is just a sad display by the recording industry. Talk about desperation! Well, in a way, it's not that surprising - they've been riding the gravy train on the backs of the artists for decades, and they don't want to give that up.
-Le
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