Comments on: RIAA to Hunt CD Rippers Next? http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: James http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-38364 James Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:36:11 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-38364 In legalise there is huge different between "unauthorized" and "illegal" and I'm surprised that most of the stories written never mentioned that. In legalise there is huge different between “unauthorized” and “illegal” and I’m surprised that most of the stories written never mentioned that. ]]> By: PatB http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-38117 PatB Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:35:50 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-38117 Jalaj, Great points. And I guess that's one of the reasons for all the court hearings- since no one really has clear guidelines on music copyrights and how the copyrights apply to a changing industry, and because our legislators have not helped to clear things up,we are left with the courts to decide. Unfortunately there are no large non-profit legal groups that work to protect copyrights for the consumers like the EFF does for Internet issues and the ACLU does for civil rights. But to me, an "unauthorized copy" cannot mean a certain file type residing in a specially named directory on a hard drive. Jalaj,

Great points. And I guess that’s one of the reasons for all the court hearings- since no one really has clear guidelines on music copyrights and how the copyrights apply to a changing industry, and because our legislators have not helped to clear things up,we are left with the courts to decide.

Unfortunately there are no large non-profit legal groups that work to protect copyrights for the consumers like the EFF does for Internet issues and the ACLU does for civil rights.

But to me, an “unauthorized copy” cannot mean a certain file type residing in a specially named directory on a hard drive.

]]> By: Jalaj http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-38096 Jalaj Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:06:45 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-38096 There is a lot of confusions about what they own. They own their work and any copy is illegal but a orchestra singer singing it is illegal or not... if he is singing for TV shows making money out of it then is it illegal? it should be as it is a derivative of original work.. if not then a person playing the song on Keyboard should not be doing anything illegal and selling the derived Midi file (may be as a ringtone) should not be illegal too... is there any clear doc showing what is legal and what is not? There is a lot of confusions about what they own.
They own their work and any copy is illegal but a orchestra singer singing it is illegal or not… if he is singing for TV shows making money out of it then is it illegal? it should be as it is a derivative of original work.. if not then a person playing the song on Keyboard should not be doing anything illegal and selling the derived Midi file (may be as a ringtone) should not be illegal too… is there any clear doc showing what is legal and what is not? ]]> By: Telan Arntegio http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-37973 Telan Arntegio Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:03:01 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-37973 This makes me wonder if they will argue the reverse is true: buying mp3s from a service like iTunes and copying them to a CD is also a break of authorized use. Essentially they argue, trying to convert it from its original format into anything else. Don't like the quality of mp3 and want it in flac? Nope, that isn't cool either. Are you a DJ with a lot of vinyl? Don't you mess with it. This makes me wonder if they will argue the reverse is true: buying mp3s from a service like iTunes and copying them to a CD is also a break of authorized use. Essentially they argue, trying to convert it from its original format into anything else. Don’t like the quality of mp3 and want it in flac? Nope, that isn’t cool either. Are you a DJ with a lot of vinyl? Don’t you mess with it. ]]> By: BelchSpeak » Post Topic » RIAA To Sue CD Rippers? http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-37961 BelchSpeak » Post Topic » RIAA To Sue CD Rippers? Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:03:13 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/02/riaa-to-hunt-cd-rippers-next/#comment-37961 [...] have a new article up about this over at Geeks Are Sexy. Go check it [...] [...] have a new article up about this over at Geeks Are Sexy. Go check it [...] ]]>