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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10031
"......RIAA wrote that “it is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies” – referring to the Howell’s collection of mp3 files made from their own CDs – and noted that “once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies.”
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So why isn't the RIAA suing MS and Apple, etc. for supplying applications capable of generating these unauthorised copies, and MS, Apple, Samsung, Creative, Motorola...and the list goes on...for providing the devices on which to play said unathorized copies? In the drug world it's called paraphenalia, and it's possesion and sale can be prosecuted.
Guess the article really implies they were in the guy's P2P shared folder, in which case, yea, he likely intend and enabled copyright infringement, but boy is the language and evident philosopy of the RIAA frightening.