RIAA now say ripping CDs to iPods is illegal

Pinkeyes · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:05

They have changed their minds....

links here and here

Brynn · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:07

It never was legal, it was just too hard to enforce

Doonhamer · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:08

Fair enough, guess I have no reason buy anymore music in the future then seeing as I only purchased the cd's I have to put on my ipod. I am sure I can find another way to spend my money.

Greenlizard0 · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:09

Doonhamer said:
Fair enough, guess I have no reason buy anymore music in the future then seeing as I only purchased the cd's I have to put on my ipod. I am sure I can find another way to spend my money.

I agree with that. The idiots.

Pinkeyes · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:11

Doonhamer said:
Fair enough, guess I have no reason buy anymore music in the future then seeing as I only purchased the cd's I have to put on my ipod. I am sure I can find another way to spend my money.

I know - its a strange thing to come out with.
If it is illegal to buy and rip a CD, why buy them in the first place ?

asim · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:11

wtf how the hell do you get music onto your mp3 player now then. lunatics.

Feek · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:12

"Recording Industry Association of America".

We're not in America.

Stuff them.

K.

Pinkeyes · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:12

asim said:
wtf how the hell do you get music onto your mp3 player now then. lunatics.

You buy it online.

semi-pro waster · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:12

I can see why they take the standpoint because they think it will make them more money if people were to buy additional copies in every format but I think the record companies are wrong to do so. I can't imagine that most people will choose to do so especially if they already own the original on a physical medium, as long as you are only playing either your version on CD or on mp3 singly at any time I don't think the record companies have lost anything.

Ukadder · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:13

So how do you get legal music onto your iPod? guessing you must purchase the songs via iTunes already in the MP3 format, does this also mean that you can't then burn the downloaded songs onto CDs to listen to them in your car?

As Doomhamer said it's hardly going to help the music industry sell more music or make anymore money.

pyro · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:13

See you guys have it hard because you are actually buying the cds!

FeFiDoh · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:13

so they try and keep pirating down and yet do something like this.

Sigg · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:14

Brynn said:
It never was legal, it was just too hard to enforce

The RIAA told the US Supreme Court in the Grokster case that ripping a CD that you lawfully own to your MP3 player was "perfectly lawful"

asim · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:14

Pinkeyes said:
You buy it online.

Ok I understand not using p2p to get music illegally. But if you buy a cd you own it and if you use it for your own purposes then there shouldnt anything wrong with that because all copies will be in your posession.

I'd rather buy a cd and have it so that I could stick it in my cd player and have the choice to burn mp3s.

Manlove is my forte · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:15

I dont think MP3s will be the death of the music industry. I think the RIAA will be.

Pinkeyes · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:15

asim said:
Ok I understand not using p2p to get music illegally. But if you buy a cd you own it and if you use it for your own purposes then there shouldnt anything wrong with that because all copies will be in your posession.

I'd rather buy a cd and have it so that I could stick it in my cd player and have the choice to burn mp3s.

I was assuming that they expect you to buy it online.
I happen to completely agree with you.

Emlyn_Dewar · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:16

You'd have to be a moron to think people would accept buying multiple copies of the same song, just in a different format.
This is just another way to punish the people who enjoy music and buy cd's... It's a bit like when I buy an album that's crippled with the protection so it tries to stop me putting it on computer... Fools!

I just hope our country's equivelant doesn't decide to go the same way as the RIAA...

bfar · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:16

Thats daft! Wish these guys would get up off their asses and join us in this decade. CDs are annoying, bulky and scrachy. Digital audio files are the future.

My entire CD collection would need a JCB for transportation. My Ipod holds the lot :-)

Sic · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:17

Feek said:
"Recording Industry Association of America".

We're not in America.

Stuff them.

K.

nail.head.

and also Kronologic's point is a good one.

afraser2k · 16 Feb 2006 at 13:27

Pinkeyes said:
I know - its a strange thing to come out with.
If it is illegal to buy and rip a CD, why buy them in the first place ?

Buy them and listen to them on your hi-fi/car stereo?

I think this is more to do with the US policy of "fair use" though rather than our own laws. We've never actually had the right to rip CD's to any device, let alone an iPod.