01-04-2008, 01:19 AM
The Post story misused a quote, but other industry reps have said much the same thing that the Post alleged... just not in a legal brief.
This is another excerpt from the same MF piece:
This is another excerpt from the same MF piece:
Although there's a lot of clarification going on over the Internet now -- pointing out that the RIAA can't specifically target ripping CDs for personal use, since that falls within "fair use" -- the RIAA hasn't lent much reason to give it the benefit of the doubt as a reasonable entity here lately.
After all, a lawyer for Sony BMG said during a recent high-profile file-sharing trial that making one measly copy was, "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'." I joked at the time that maybe they'll come after us for singing tunes in the shower, but at this point, maybe that thought isn't funny so much as scary.