Comments on: The President’s iPod violates RIAA’s idea of copyright http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/07/the-presidents-ipod-violates-riaas-idea-of-copyright/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:39:12 -0500 hourly 1 By: Jim http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/07/the-presidents-ipod-violates-riaas-idea-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-646001 Jim Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:18:13 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=24349#comment-646001 Look I am one of the last people to defend the RIAA, but they have NOT said that ripping a CD (like a Beatles CD) to your harddrive and then putting it on your iPod is "a big no-no." Listen to Cary Sherman at http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2008/01/rip_this_and_sue_that.html. Now to be sure he doesn't say it's "legal" but he doesn't say it's illegal. Personally, Don Verilli(see his Grokster Supreme Court statement on behalf of the RIAA) and I both believe the President's act of ripping for personal use is legal. Indeed at least one Appellate Federal Circuit Court has characterized it as paradynamic personal use. Throw stones at the MPAA for other things - like backing poorly conceived legislation - most of which hasn't passed; but they haven't said it's illegal to rip your purchased music and put it on your iPod for personal use. Look I am one of the last people to defend the RIAA, but they have NOT said that ripping a CD (like a Beatles CD) to your harddrive and then putting it on your iPod is “a big no-no.” Listen to Cary Sherman at http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2008/01/rip_this_and_sue_that.html.
Now to be sure he doesn’t say it’s “legal” but he doesn’t say it’s illegal. Personally, Don Verilli(see his Grokster Supreme Court statement on behalf of the RIAA) and I both believe the President’s act of ripping for personal use is legal. Indeed at least one Appellate Federal Circuit Court has characterized it as paradynamic personal use. Throw stones at the MPAA for other things – like backing poorly conceived legislation – most of which hasn’t passed; but they haven’t said it’s illegal to rip your purchased music and put it on your iPod for personal use.

]]> By: kahrytan http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/07/the-presidents-ipod-violates-riaas-idea-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-645741 kahrytan Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:50:10 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=24349#comment-645741 Wrong... http://www.amazon.com/The-Beatles/dp/B000QK2XVI/ref=sr_f1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1207637209&sr=101-4 Beattles music in MP3 form for sale on Amazon.com. There is 28 beatles songs but thousands of beatles related songs. Wrong…

http://www.amazon.com/The-Beatles/dp/B000QK2XVI/ref=sr_f1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1207637209&sr=101-4

Beattles music in MP3 form for sale on Amazon.com. There is 28 beatles songs but thousands of beatles related songs.

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