According to MacWorld UK, the Copyright Office of the US Library of Congress has rejected a petition which requested that owners of iPods and other portable media players be allowed to rip the CDs and DVDs they own to their own playback devices. You'd imagine, wouldn't you, that you should be allowed to transfer material you own so long as you make sure that multiple copies would never be played simultaneously. But no. The RIAA strenuously disagrees. Apparently space-shifting and format-shifting do not count as non-infringing uses.
You can read the Electronic Freedom Foundation's reply to the ruling here.
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11-26-2006 @ 2:16PM
Matthew said...
And a hearty and resounding "F U we'll do what we want" is heard througout the land as the free people in every country speak as one.
Yep, they can stick this one.
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11-26-2006 @ 2:22PM
Jon said...
Oh well, this means more money to Apple and less to Walmart, which can only be good thing.
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11-26-2006 @ 2:26PM
Chaz said...
So, does that mean it's illegal to rip music? Movies were already shady, so I'm not even going to ask about that in the first place.
I'm not saying I don't do either, but I'm curious as to what this means. Library of Congress has been stating a lot of things lately. One I remember from recently is the abandonware decision: It's legal as long as support is dead and they're not selling it anymore.
Are they like the judicial branch or something, so whatever they is like a court decision, or does the real Congress still have to make the laws to get ratified?
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11-26-2006 @ 2:57PM
Paul Carroll said...
You have to be fucking kidding me. I am not re-buying my music on a DRM'd to shit format that will be completely worthless in a few years.
The RIAA can suck it.
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11-26-2006 @ 3:54PM
coorspate said...
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! ......FU**TARDS!!!!!!
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11-26-2006 @ 4:25PM
Mike Reinmiller said...
This will all be laughed at in 20 years!!!
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11-26-2006 @ 4:30PM
Nitewing 98 said...
This just in: King George III decides that the colonies cannot declare independence, nor may they throw shipments of tea into the harbor.
There's enough momentum behind the digital media "fad" that the RIAA and MPAA will never get it stopped. It's interesting, if not a bit fun, though, to watch them try. I never tire of watching them froth at the mouth and spaz out as we continue to do exactly the opposite of their wishes...
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11-26-2006 @ 4:40PM
matt said...
I'm pretty sure this makes at least 70% of Americans criminals...
fu*king ridiculous
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11-26-2006 @ 4:43PM
Jon said...
"This will all be laughed at in 20 years!!!"
I doubt it, as the RIAA will probably be controlling our minds by then...
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11-26-2006 @ 5:01PM
Rae said...
"So it's just about movies, not music."
Yep.
ATTN: TUAW - Stop making things up. Thx.
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11-26-2006 @ 5:35PM
Rich Schmidt said...
The MacWorldUK article doesn't say anything about CD's. Just DVD's. It's about breaking the CSS encryption.
So it's just about movies, not music.
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11-26-2006 @ 5:41PM
HoobesDoo said...
Until people stop buying CDs and DVDs to show the industry that this is getting ridiculous, nothing is going to change. It's time people start boycotting the BS that's being pushed on them. Come on, you buy something and you have no rights to do with it what you want? What has happened to the days where we could freely make compilations of our albums and give a tape to our friends? Let's stop being manipulated in this insane matter. The media also has the power to help instead of just making it sound sensationalist.
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11-26-2006 @ 6:16PM
Jon said...
The EFF link (the first EFF link) mentions CDs and DVDs.
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11-26-2006 @ 6:24PM
Matt T. said...
Don'y you love corrupt goverment that seem to listen to a multi-billion dollar industry.
I'll do what I please with my DVDs. When I buy a DVD, I buy the content on the disc for my personal use, which could be putting it to my Ipod.
Goverment FTL
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11-26-2006 @ 6:31PM
Debbie said...
Ridiculous!
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11-26-2006 @ 7:48PM
Stephen Antonucci said...
I think you have to realize they are simply upholding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which disallows you to break copy protection and reverse engineer copy protection schemes. This has little to do with "fair use" and its established laws. This is why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is such a horrible law. Until someone with deep pockets and a large amount of lawyers can take on this horrible law and win stating fair use laws or other reasons this will always be the case. The Copyright Office can not simply ignore the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as it is the law of the land, unfortunately!
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11-26-2006 @ 9:47PM
Jeffbbs said...
what nonsense...how sad.
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11-27-2006 @ 2:24AM
Chris D. said...
...so i guess iPod owners = terrorists?
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11-29-2006 @ 8:22AM
NWJR said...
Every time you Rip a DVD, the terrorists win.
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